THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT

THE SENECA FALLS CONVENTION

• In July 1848, the first womens right convention in seneca falls, New York.
• About 200 women and 40 men attended.
• The women's declaration called for an end to laws that offend women.
• Suffrage was the most controversal at the seneca falls convention.
• After much debate, women were able to vote.

LUCRETIA MOTT

• She was a Quaker, and Quaker women enjoyed equality and there home.
• Mott gave lectures in Philadelphia calling for peace, workers' rights, and abolition.
• She helped fugative slaves.
• She organized a female Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia
• She met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the anti slavery convention in London to fight for womens rights.

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

• She joined with Lucretia Mott and made the first women's right convention.
• The convention issued a declaration sentiments modled on the declration of independence.
• The declration sentiments stated that all men and woman are equal.
• She insisted that demand for woman suffrage but voting was too radical.
• After the debate woman suffrage in United States was included.

THE WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT

• Many male and female reformers joined the movement.
• Susan b. Anthony, the daughter of a quaker abolitionist in rural New York, worked for womens rights.
• She said that college training for girls was essential.
• Susan b. Anthony and elizabeth stanton met at a temperance meeting and became life long friends.
• The worked with other women to earn the right to vote.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

• She was the daughter of a Quaker abolitionist in rural New York.
• She worked the womans rights snd temperance.
• She called for equal pay for woman, college training for girls, and coeducation.
• She met with Elizabeth Stanton and became life long friends and partners in the struggle for women's rights.
• In 1920 the woman suffrage became a reality everywhere in the United States.

PROGRESS BY AMERICAN WOMEN

• The economical roles of men and women began to change once the industial revolution began.
• By the mid1800s circumstances had started to change especially in the north.
• Some believed that women belonged in there home because the outside world wasn't safe.
• The Great Awakening greatly influenced the american families.
• It was known weren't as tough as men so they should be home makers.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR EDUCATION

• Early pioneers believed that woman should be educated for their traditional roles in life.
• Beecher the daughter of a minister, she wrote a book called a "Treatise on Domestic Economy."
• It gave instruction on children, cooking, and health matters.
• Both Catherine Beecher and Emma Willder believed women should be educated.
• Willerd established a school in New York that as well taught the usual home making subjects.

EMMA HART WILLARD

• She believed that woman should be educated for their traditional roles in life.
• She thought that woman could be capable to be teachers.
• She established the Troy Female Seminary in New York.
• She educated herself in subjects considered to be only ment for boys.
• The school taught the regular subjects, as well as home making subjects.

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAWS

• Overtime women made some gains in the are of marriage and property laws.
• New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Mississippi, and California recognize the right of women to own property.
• Some states pass laws permitting women to share the guard ship of there childrens.
• Indiana was the first state to allow women to seek divorce.
• The divorce was only passed if the men were chronic abusers of alcohol.

BREAKING BARRIERS

• Women can become school teachers although school boards payed low salaries.
• Some women however succeeded in entering these all-male professions.
• Hoping to study medicine, Elizabeth Blackwell was turned down by 20 schools
• Finally excepted by Jim Geneva college in New York, Blackwell graduated at the head of her class
• Women in the 1800s remain limited and nad just begun the long struggle to achieve their goals