Women’s RightsWomen’s RightsJeanie ShinYujin YangKori KangJiny Kim

Lucretia Mott was antislavery, women’s rights activist, and Quaker minister

helped organize women's abolitionist societies, since the anti-slavery organizations would not admit women as members.

Key organizer in the broader-based convention for women's rights held in Rochester, New York, in 1850, at the Unitarian Church.

Her theology was influenced by Unitarians including Theodore Parker and William Ellery Channing as well as early Quakers including William Penn.

Elected as the first president of the American Equal Rights Convention after the end of the Civil War

Lucretia MottLucretia Mott

Organized by Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott

The first public women's rights meeting in the United States

300 men and women came to Seneca Falls, New York to protest the mistreatment of women in social, economic, political, and religious life

Demanded that women be granted all of the rights and privileges that men possessed, including the right to vote.   

The "Declaration of Sentiments" written primarily by Stanton and Mott was a deliberate parallel to the "Declaration of Independence

Beginning of the women's movement in America.

Reactions: Newspapers reacted with articles mocking the

Seneca Falls convention Some people though that the “Declaration of

Sentiments” was ridiculous on its face Even more liberal papers like that of Horace

Greeley judged the demand to vote to be going to far

Seneca Falls ConventionSeneca Falls Convention

This is a picture of women participating in Seneca Falls Convention

Declaration of Sentiments Declaration of Sentiments (1848)(1848)

• A declaration signed at the Seneca Falls Convention

• Based on the Declaration of Independence• Described the types of discrimination that the

women in America faced • Called for equal rights for women in education,

law, and voting• Caused by unfair treatment of women by men• Signed under the leadership of Lucretia Mott

and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (by 100 out of 300 attendees)

• Frederick Douglas also spoke persuasively to acknowledge the facts mentioned in the declaration.

Reactions:• Many respected the courage and abilities for

drafting the document, but were unwilling to take actions for actual change.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women

are created equal." -Lucretia Mott “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations

on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her”

- Delaration of Sentiments (1848)

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November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902 Leading figure of the early women’s movement Also an abolitionist

• Concentrated on abolishing slavery during the Civil War

President of the National Woman Suffrage Association

Held the Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848• Frederick Douglass only African American

to attend• agreed with Stanton’s resolution regarding

women’s suffrage Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments One of the leaders in promoting women’s right

in general• Divorce• Right to vote

Argued that the Bible and organized religion denied women their full rights• The Woman’s Bible

Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton

Followed the English convention Married women were far more disadvantaged than single

women or widows Once married, women lost their legal identities and

became one person with the husband. Wives’ properties automatically went to their husbands. Personal possession that wives could have was dowries

from their fathers. Rare for daughters to inherit real property; they inherited

personal properties Unable to work and control wages Divorce women become impoverished• Women had no rights to marital property

Women’s Suffrage Women’s Suffrage

Economic realities of life demanded greater flexibility for women

After civil war and industrialization, women had to support the family like men

Addressed the grievances presented by English women

Wife’s rights to own, buy, and sell property (separate property)

Restored wives’ legal identities Right to sue and be sued Able to hold stock in their own names women start

business Liable for their own debts

Married Women’s Property Act Married Women’s Property Act

Identify two women key figures and state their contributions to the women’s movement.

Homework assignmentHomework assignment

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Declaration_of_Sentiments.html http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/first-age-reform/resources/declarations-

independence-womens-rights-and-seneca-falls-d http://www.biography.com/people/william-lloyd-garrison-9307251 http://www.biography.com/people/elizabeth-cady-stanton-9492182 http://www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324

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