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Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott became intrested in womens rights when she learned that men were making double what she was making for a teachers salart. Lucretia Mott was a very important figure in the Seneca Falls Convention. She said the opening and closing speeches. Later on her husband and her started taking in runaway slaves from the Underground Railroad. -
Womens Education
Women had very little education beyond elementry school years. In 1821 a school for girls. Later on more advantages came for womens education. -
Cult of Domesticity
After a women was married in the 19th century, she would face limited options. Women restricted their activities after marriage to the home and family. Housework and child care were considered the only proper activites for a women who was married. -
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Angelina published "An Appeal to Christian Women of the South". She wrote that the women should "overthrow this horrible system of opression and cruelity." The women aboltionists raised money, distrubted literature, and collected signatiures for potitions to Congress. -
Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucritia Mott held this convention for women's rights. They created a document called "Declaration of Sentiments" which was modeled off of the Declation of Independence. 300 men and women gathered at the Wesleyan Methodist Church for this convention. They wanted the women to participate in all public issues on an equal basis. Such as the right to vote. -
How Women were treated in 1850
roughly one in five white women had worked for wages a few years before they were married. One in ten single white women worked outside the home, earning about half the pay men recieved to do the same job. Women could not vote or sit on juries even if they were taxpayers. When a Women got married, her property, and any money, she had earned became her husband's. After they had children they lacked quardianship rights over their children -
Health Reforms
Educated women were allowed to begin working for health reforms. In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was the first women to graduate from medical college, and then later opened the New York Infimary for Women and Children. -
Sojourner Truth
She was a slave who had changed her name. She traveled the country preaching and then later on, arguing for abolition. In 1851, he went to a women's right convention, she was hissed at in dissapoval of the others. Sojourner Truth supported aboltion, some participants feared her speaking would cause abolition to become less popular. She recieved an applause from the audience with ehr speech. This urged men to grant women with their rights. -
Temperance Movement
The Temperance Movement was the effort in trying to prohibit the drinking of alcohol. Which was another influence of churches and the womens right movement. While speaking at a temperance in 1852, Mary C. Vaughen attested to the evils of alchol.
