14-03 WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT.doc
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THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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THE SENECA FALLS CONVENTION (1848): A meeting that demanded equal rights for women. It was held
in upstate New York in 1848.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON (1815-1902)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton whose husband was opposed to slavery, traveled to
London in 1840 for an anti-slavery convention. There she met and became
friends with Lucretia Mott who was also going to the World Anti-Slavery
Convention.
Cady Stanton and Mott later organized the Seneca Falls Convention in New
York to promote equal rights for women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the
Declaration of Sentiments which she modeled after the Declaration of
Independence.
LUCRETIA MOTT (1793-1880)
Lucretia Mott was a Quaker who went to London for the World Anti-Slavery
Convention in 1840. She was angered when she and other female delegates
from the U.S. could not attend because of their gender.
She, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, fought for
women’s rights.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818-1895)
Frederick Douglass, a former slave and editor of the anti-slavery newspaper
“North Star”, also supported equal rights for women. He attended the 1848
Seneca Falls Convention.
When a resolution to demand suffrage for women failed to pass at the Seneca
Falls Convention, Frederick Douglass spoke out in support of it. His speech
convinced the members of the convention to vote for the resolution asking for
women’s right to vote.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY (1820-1906)
Susan B. Anthony did not attend the Seneca Falls Convention. She was a
reformer in the temperance movement. When she met Elizabeth Cady
Stanton in 1851, she dedicated her life to fighting for women’s rights.
Women were finally granted the right to vote by the 19th Amendment, which
was ratified in 1920.
DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS (1848)
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1776)
When, in the course of human events, it becomes
necessary for one portion of the family of man to
assume among the people of the earth a position
different from that which they have hitherto occupied,
but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God
entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the causes that impel
them to such a course.
When in the Course of human events it becomes
necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with another and to assume
among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal
station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God
entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.
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.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to
secure these rights, Governments are instituted among
Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed
Such has been the patient sufferance of the women
under this government, and such is now the necessity
which constrains them to demand the equal station to
which they are entitled.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;
and such is now the necessity which constrains them to
alter their former Systems of Government.
Why did Elizabeth Cady Stanton model the Declaration of Sentiments after the Declaration of
Independence?
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Wyoming was the first state to grant women the right to vote. Why did new states in the West grant
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Why did it take so long to ratify the Constitution and finally grant women suffrage?
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14-03 WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT questions.docx
Name: _________________________
Period:_______
Women’s Rights Movement Questions
Date: ____________
1. What was the purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention? __________________________________
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2. Where was it held? ________________________________________________
3. What document did Elizabeth Cady Stanton write? _____________________________________
4. What document did she model it after? ______________________________________________
5. What prompted Lucretia Mott to begin fighting for women’s rights? _______________________
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6. What did Frederick Douglass manage to do at the Seneca Falls Convention? _________________
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7. In what reform movements was Susan B. Anthony actively involved? _______________________
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8. What is the temperance movement? _________________________________________________
9. What was the first state to grant women suffrage? _____________________________________
10. What amendment ____________ and in what year ________ did women gain suffrage in the U.S.?
Name: _________________________
Period:_______
Women’s Rights Movement Questions
Date: ____________
1. What was the purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention? __________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. Where was it held? ________________________________________________
3. What document did Elizabeth Cady Stanton write? _____________________________________
4. What document did she model it after? ______________________________________________
5. What prompted Lucretia Mott to begin fighting for women’s rights? _______________________
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6. What did Frederick Douglass manage to do at the Seneca Falls Convention? _________________
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7. In what reform movements was Susan B. Anthony actively involved? _______________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
8. What is the temperance movement? _________________________________________________
9. What was the first state to grant women suffrage? _____________________________________
10. What amendment ____________ and in what year ________ did women gain suffrage in the U.S.?