U.S. History

Chapter 15: New Movements in America

Section 5: Women’s Rights

The Influence of Abolition

Angelina Grimke Sarah Grimke Sojourner Truth

•Women criticized for public roles in abolition movement

The Influence of Abolition

•Sarah Grimke: argued that women should receive equal education and pay

Sarah Grimke

The Influence of Abolition

•Sojourner Truth: powerful speaker for abolition and women’s rights

Sojourner Truth

“That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place…Look at me! I have ploughed and planted and…no man could head me. And ain’t I a woman?”

--Sojourner Truth

Women’s Rights

• Women’s rights movement gains ground in abolition & reform efforts

• Women take advantage of education opportunities

• Better organize

Women’s Rights

• Lacked right to vote

• Little or no control over property

• Women should work for change within families

• Women “need” men

Seneca Falls Convention

• 1840: Elizabeth Cady attends World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London while on her honey moon

• Women not permitted to participate

• Sat behind curtain

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Seneca Falls Convention

• Meets Lucretia Mott at convention

• Mott & Stanton decide to hold their own convention

Lucretia Mott

Seneca Falls Convention

•Seneca Falls Convention—convention organized by Elizabeth Stanton & Lucretia Mott that launched the organized women’s rights movement

Seneca Falls Convention

•Declaration of Sentiments—a woman’s rights document molded on the Declaration of Independence

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The Continuing Struggle

Lucy Stone Susan B. Antony

•Lucy Stone & Susan B. Anthony became important leaders of the women’s movement

after the Seneca Falls Convention

The Continuing Struggle

• Susan B. Anthony

– Organizational skills

– Single woman

– Equal pay, enter male professions

Susan B. Anthony

The Continuing Struggle

• Susan B. Anthony

– Women’s property rights

– Organized petition drive in NY

• 1860: NY gave married women ownership of their wages and property