Women and Reform
1. Many of the women abolitionists working to end slavery also worked for the women's rights movement.
2. Lucretia Mott, a Quaker who gave speeches and lectures in Philadelphia on the issues of temperance, peace, workers' rights, and abolition, also organized the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.
3. After meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the world antislavery convention in London, Mott and Stanton worked together for women's rights as well.
The Seneca Falls Convention
1. In July 1848, the first women's rights convention was organized in Seneca Falls, New York to issue a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.
2. The declaration demanded that women be granted the same rights as men on the issue of suffrage and choosing a profession.
3. When Frederick Douglass decided to stand with Elizabeth Stanton on the issue of suffrage, the demand was also included into the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.
The Movement Grows
1. Susan B. Anthony, daughter of a Quaker abolitionist, organized the Daughters of Temperance to advertise her beliefs in equal pay, college training, and coeducation.
2. After meeting with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851, Susan B. Anthony worked with her to lead the women's rights movement.
3. Starting with Wyoming in 1890, woman suffrage became a reality everywhere in the U.S. by 1920.
2. Lucretia Mott, a Quaker who gave speeches and lectures in Philadelphia on the issues of temperance, peace, workers' rights, and abolition, also organized the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.
3. After meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the world antislavery convention in London, Mott and Stanton worked together for women's rights as well.
The Seneca Falls Convention
1. In July 1848, the first women's rights convention was organized in Seneca Falls, New York to issue a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.
2. The declaration demanded that women be granted the same rights as men on the issue of suffrage and choosing a profession.
3. When Frederick Douglass decided to stand with Elizabeth Stanton on the issue of suffrage, the demand was also included into the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.
The Movement Grows
1. Susan B. Anthony, daughter of a Quaker abolitionist, organized the Daughters of Temperance to advertise her beliefs in equal pay, college training, and coeducation.
2. After meeting with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851, Susan B. Anthony worked with her to lead the women's rights movement.
3. Starting with Wyoming in 1890, woman suffrage became a reality everywhere in the U.S. by 1920.
Progress by American Women
1. Early pioneers like Catherine Beecher and Emma Hart Willard believed that women should be educated for their traditional roles in life as wives, mothers, and housekeepers.
2. It was also believed that women would make capable teachers.
3. Based on Beecher's ideas, the Milwaukee College for Women set up courses to teach women the duties of a wife, mother, and housekeeper.
Education
1. After college, Emma Willard taught herself subjects suited for men at the time and opened the Troy Female Seminary to teach other girls the same things she learned.
2. In 1821, Mary Lyon opened the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts, modeling it after the nearby Amherst College.
3. These colleges helped young women break the barriers to female education by teaching them the subjects that only men had been allowed to learn.
Marriage and Family Laws
1. During the 1800s, New York, Pennysylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and California all gave women the right to own propoerty after getting married.
2. Around this time, women also became allowed to share the guardianship of their children with their husbands.
3. Starting with Indiana, women slowly became allowed to file for divorce if their husbands were chronic abusers of alcohol.
Breaking Barriers
1. Athough they recieved lower pay, women were allowed to teach at elementary schools although studying for fields in medicine and ministry were more difficult.
2. Elizabeth Blackwell applied at more than 20 schools before being accepted in the Geneva College in New York to study medicine where she graduated at the head of her class.
3. Despite such accomplishments, women's rights were still limited in social customs and expectations.
2. It was also believed that women would make capable teachers.
3. Based on Beecher's ideas, the Milwaukee College for Women set up courses to teach women the duties of a wife, mother, and housekeeper.
Education
1. After college, Emma Willard taught herself subjects suited for men at the time and opened the Troy Female Seminary to teach other girls the same things she learned.
2. In 1821, Mary Lyon opened the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts, modeling it after the nearby Amherst College.
3. These colleges helped young women break the barriers to female education by teaching them the subjects that only men had been allowed to learn.
Marriage and Family Laws
1. During the 1800s, New York, Pennysylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and California all gave women the right to own propoerty after getting married.
2. Around this time, women also became allowed to share the guardianship of their children with their husbands.
3. Starting with Indiana, women slowly became allowed to file for divorce if their husbands were chronic abusers of alcohol.
Breaking Barriers
1. Athough they recieved lower pay, women were allowed to teach at elementary schools although studying for fields in medicine and ministry were more difficult.
2. Elizabeth Blackwell applied at more than 20 schools before being accepted in the Geneva College in New York to study medicine where she graduated at the head of her class.
3. Despite such accomplishments, women's rights were still limited in social customs and expectations.