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The Age of Reform

The Age of Reform. Women and Reform. Many women abolitionist also worked for women’s rights. Many of the women reformers were Quaker because they enjoyed a certain amount of equality in their own communities.

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The Age of Reform

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  1. The Age of Reform

  2. Women and Reform • Many women abolitionist also worked for women’s rights. • Many of the women reformers were Quaker because they enjoyed a certain amount of equality in their own communities. • Lucretia Mott, a Quaker, gave lectures in Philadelphia calling for temperance, peace, workers’ rights, and abolition. • Mott also helped fugitive slaves and organized the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. • Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton joined forces to work for women’s rights.

  3. The Seneca Falls Convention • In July 1848, Stanton, Mott and a few other women organized the first women’s right convention in Seneca Falls, New York. • The convention issued Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions modeled on the Declaration of Independence. • The women’s document declared, “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal.”

  4. The Seneca Falls Convention • The women’s declaration demanded that women be allowed to enter the all-male world of trades, professions, and businesses. • The most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls Convention concerned suffrage, or the right to vote. • Elizabeth Stanton insisted that the declaration include a demand for woman suffrage, but delegates thought the idea of women voting was too radical. • After a heated debate the convention voted to include the demand for woman suffrage in the United States.

  5. The Movement Grows • The Seneca Falls Convention paved the way for the women’s rights movement. • Susan B. Anthony worked for women’s rights and temperance. She called for equal pay for women, college training for girls, and coeducation – the teaching of boys and girls together. • Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met at a temperance meeting and became partners for women’s rights. • For the rest of the century, Anthony and Stanton led the women’s movement. • Beginning with Wyoming in 1890, several states granted women the right tot vote. • It was not until 1920 that woman suffrage became a reality everywhere in the United States.

  6. Education • Emma Willard educated herself in subjects considered only suitable for men, such as science and mathematics. • She established the Troy Female Seminary in New York, which taught math, history, geography and physics. • Mary Lyon established Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts in 1837. • Some women began to make their own opportunities. • They broke the barriers to female education and helped other women do the same.

  7. Marriage and Family Law • During the 1800s women made some gains in the area of marriage and property laws. • Several states recognized the right of women to won property after their marriage. • Some states passed laws permitting women to share the guardianship of their children jointly with their husbands. • Indiana was the first of several states that allowed women to seek divorce if their husbands were chronic abusers of alcohol.

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