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The Age of Reform: The Women’s
Rights Movement
(1820-1860)
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What were the effects of the
women’s rights movement of the
middle to late 1800s?
Women and Reform
• Many women reformers
were Quakers
• Lucretia Mott and other
Quakers had some
equality in their
communities
• Mott helped fugitive
slaves and formed an
antislavery society
• Mott met Elizabeth Cady
Stanton at the world
antislavery convention in
London
• They joined forces to
work for women’s rights
The Seneca Falls Convention
• July 1848
• First women’s rights
convention was in Seneca
Falls, New York
• 200 women and 30 men
attended
• The convention issued a
Declaration of Sentiments
and Resolutions, which
was modeled after the
Declaration of
Independence
• Called for an end to laws
that discriminated against
women
The Seneca Falls Convention Continued
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The Declaration also
demanded that women be
allowed to have jobs that
men had
The most controversial
issue at the convention was
about suffrage (right to
vote)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
wanted the Declaration to
demand women suffrage
The delegates thought the
idea of women voting was
too radical
Stanton and Frederick
Douglass argued
powerfully for women’s
right to vote
After a heated vote, the
convention voted to include
the demand for woman
suffrage
What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention
in 1848?
A. Delegates called for an end to
child labor.
B. Delegates passed a resolution
in favor of voting rights for all
African Americans.
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women be given the right to vote.
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Delegates petitioned the United States to add an
Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
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Growth of the Women’s Movement
• Seneca Falls paved the
way for growth of the
women’s rights movement
• Susan B. Anthony
worked for women’s rights
and temperance
• Anthony called for equal
pay for women, college
training for girls, and
coeducation
Growth of the Women’s Movement Continued
• Anthony met Elizabeth
Cady Stanton at a
temperance meeting in
1851
• They became partners in
the struggle for
women’s rights and
suffrage
• They were the leaders
and worked for the right
to vote for women
• 1890- Wyoming gave
women the right to vote,
others soon followed
• Not until 1920 would
women officially be given
the right to vote
Education
• They broke the barriers to
female education and helped
other women do the same
• Emma Willard educated
herself in subjects thought
only suitable for men (math
and science)
• Mary Lyon established Mount
Holyoke Female Seminary in
Massachusetts in 1837
Marriage and Family Laws
• Women made some gains
in marriage and property
laws in the mid to late
1800s
• NY, Penn., Indiana, Wisc.,
Mississippi, and California
recognized the right of
women to own property
after their marriage
• Some states passed laws
for divorced women
• Divorced women could
share the guardianship of
their children with their
husband
• Indiana was the first to
allow women to seek
divorce if their husband
were chronic abusers of
alcohol
Under the new marriage laws passed in
Indiana, when could a woman seek divorce
from her husband?
A. If he could not provide
adequately for the family
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D. If he was a chronic abuser of alcohol
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B. If he abused their children
Breaking Barriers
• In the 1800s, women had few
career choices
• They could be elementary
teachers (Paid less than men)
• Men dominated professions
like medicine and ministry
• Some strong minded women
like Elizabeth Blackwell
broke this barrier
• Blackwell became a doctor
• Despite the accomplishments,
women remained limited by
social customs and
expectations
• Women had just begun the
long struggle to achieve their
goal of equality
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What were the effects of the women’s
rights movement of the middle to late
1800s?
-Women gained the right to vote in several
states
-greater access to education
-Expanded rights within marriage in some
states
-Greater public awareness of issues
affecting women
Chapter 14 Section 3 Quiz
Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts
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their own oppression and formed the
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movement.
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C. suffrage movement.
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