Women and Reform
Many women reformers were _______________. __________________________and other Quakers had some
________________ in their communities. Mott helped ______________ slaves and formed an
________________ society. Mott met _______________________________ at the world antislavery
convention in _________________. They ______________ forces to work for women’s rights.
The Seneca Falls Convention
July ________ was the first ______________________ convention was in__________________, New York.
200 ______________ and 30 _________ attended. The convention ____________a Declaration of
____________________________________. Called for an ________ to laws that discriminated against
____________.
The ________________ also demanded that women be allowed to have ________ that men had. The
most ___________________ issue at the convention was about ____________(right to vote).
___________________________________wanted the Declaration to ____________ women suffrage. The
delegates thought the idea of women voting was too____________. Stanton and
___________________________ argued powerfully for women’s right to_________. After a heated vote,
the convention ____________to include the demand for woman suffrage.
The Growth of the Women’s Movement
Seneca Falls paved the way for ______________ of the women’s rights___________. In the 1800sWomen held several ______________ conventions. _______________________worked for
_______________________and _________________. Anthony called for equal _______ for women,
_______________ training for girls, and ____________________. Anthony organized the country’s
___________ women’s temperance association, the _______________of Temperance.
Education
Some women began to make their own__________________.They broke the _____________ to female
__________________ and helped other women do the same. _________________________ educated herself
in _______________ thought only suitable for men (________________________). Willard set up the Troy
Female ________________ in 1821. ____________________ established Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
in Massachusetts in 1837.
Marriage and Family Laws
Women made some gains in _____________ and ________________ laws in the mid to late 1800s.
NY, Penn., Indiana, Wisc., Mississippi, and California recognized the _____________ of women to
________ property after their __________________. Some states passed laws for __________________
women. Divorced women could _____________ the guardianship of their ______________ with their
husband. ______________ was the first to ___________ women to seek _______________ if their
husband were chronic abusers of ______________.