The Women’s movement

1. The Women’s movement -Timeline -Primary source -Checking for understanding -2010 Salary Chart -Scavenger Hunt

2. March 2014Women in The Late 1800S These women are learning how to choose eggs for the market. This woman is making butter. This woman is caring for her child. Do Now: By looking at these pictures, what was the role of women in the late 1800s?

3. Background information • Before the Civil War, women (no matter what color she was) didn’t have many rights. • Most Americans believed that women were not capable of being good doctors, lawyers, carpenters, or farmers.

4. Biography Chart

5. Think Pair Share • “Some History books make it look as if half the people in America never even existed. History books talk about explorers, merchants, politicians, and generals—but these are all men. In early America, women couldn’t hold any of these jobs. They were invisible to history.” –Howard Zinn •  Do you agree with this statement? Explain.

6. Influenced by the abolition movement • Fighting for the rights of African Americans helped many women abolitionists figure out that they needed to fight for their own rights.

7. The Seneca Falls Lucretia Mott was a Quaker. Mott gave lectures on temperance, peace, workers' rights, and abolition. Mott met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at an antislavery convention. Stanton was the founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Mott and Stanton organized the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York with other women. There they delivered the Declaration of Sentiments. Stanton insisted that the declaration include a demand for woman suffrage, the right to vote.

8. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” The Declaration of sentiments This document was signed by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men at the Seneca Falls Convention. Compare and contrast the Declaration of Sentiments with the Declaration of Independence.

9. Women's Rights Movement • Susan B. Anthony was dedicated at improving women's rights. Her fight for women’s rights turned into a political movement. She fought for equal pay and college training for women. She met and worked with Stanton and other women. They were able to achieve success in several states towards giving women the right to vote. • Mary Lyon established Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837. It was the first institution for higher education for women only. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

10. Checking for Understanding Write T or F in the blank, and if a statement is false, rewrite it correctly on the bottom. 1. _____ Many abolitionists women also worked for women’s rights. ________________________________________ 2. _____ The Declaration of Sentiments was signed at a business convention. ________________________________________

11. Use the timeline to explain the Women’s Rights History.

12. The road to progress • Women gained rights in marriage and property laws in several states. • Women began to work in all male-professions, such as medicine and ministry. • Elizabeth Blackwell was denied at 20 schools. She was finally accepted to Geneva College in New York. She became a well-known doctor.

13. Checking for understanding • Identify the key leaders in the women’s rights movement.

14. 19th Amendment The 19th Amendment to the Constitution ratified on August 20, 1920. It stated that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Yay! So women are equal to men now, right?  Table 1: Median Weekly Earnings (Annual Average) and Gender Wage Gap for Full-Time Workers, 16 Years and Older by Race/Ethnic Background, 2010

15. Show you knowThe Women’s Movement 1. Who organized the first women's rights convention? 2. Describe the Declaration of Sentiments. 3. Define Suffrage. 4. What did Susan B. Anthony want for women? 5. What is the name of the school developed by Mary Lyon? 6. Which state was the first to allow women to vote in their constitution? 7. Describe the struggles of Elizabeth Blackwell.