Transcript Women Suffrage

Women Suffrage
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Fighting Slavery –
Women get involved
Inspired by Second Great
Awakening – religious reform
movement; good works get
you to heaven
 Anti – slavery fight helped
pave way for women suffrage
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Women (at this time)
Could not hold office; only
white men
 Could not practice
professions (i.e. medicine or
law)
 Could not control their own
money or property (fathers
or husbands controlled it)
 Would be disciplined by males
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Yet Women Abolitionist…
tried to convince lawmakers
to make slavery illegal
 raised money for
suffrage movement
 spoke out against
slave beatings
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Seneca Falls: the
Declaration of Sentiments
1848 – almost 300 people, including
40 men, arrived for the Convention
 People there: Abolitionists,
Quakers, Housewives, etc.
 Dec. of Sent. – proposal for
women’s rights – modeled after
Dec. of Ind.
–it listed acts of tyranny by men
over women
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The Legacy of Seneca
Falls
created organization
among women
 established awareness of
women suffrage
 Sojourner Truth – “Aint I a
woman?” – awareness of
black women
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The Legacy of Seneca
Falls (contd.)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton –
organized Seneca Falls
Convention. Concerned with
voting rights.
 Susan B. Anthony – built
movement into national
organization. Concerned with
women getting equal treatment
in work place & voting.
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SUMMARY
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QUIZ TIME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lgJrqhZvHQ&fe
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-suAlXQhMI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvk1NZDFvZU
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1. What religious movement changed
the minds of many people to think
that you must do good works to get to
heaven?
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2. Why were women leading
abolitionists?
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3. What document was created at
Seneca Falls announcing women’s
independence?
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4. Which founding mother is credited
with initiating the women’s rights
movement and writing the
Declaration?
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5. Which founding mother started the
NOW organization, leading the way for
women eventually getting the right to
vote?