Chapter 16: The Spirit of Reform-Lesson 3 "The Women's Movement

Many women abolitionists also worked for women’s rights. In July 1848, Lucretia Mott and ________________________ held the first women’s rights convention. It was in Seneca Falls, New York. The Seneca Falls Convention laid the foundation for the women’s rights movement.

• Emily Dickinson

• Harriett Beecher Stowe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Sojourner Truth

The convention put out a statement called the ____________________________. The statement demanded an end to laws that were unfair to women. It said women should be allowed to work in jobs and businesses where the workers were mostly men.

• Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of Abolitionists

• Declaration of Sentiments

• Declaration of Women's Rights

People at the Seneca Falls Convention also talked about _________________, or the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wanted the statement to say that women must have the right to vote.

• abolition

• suffrage

• transcendentalism

• industrialization in the South

The abolitionist ______________________ agreed with Stanton's demand for women right to vote. He argued powerfully for women’s right to vote.

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Elijah Lovejoy

• Frederick Douglass

• Henry David Thoreau

The The Declaration of Sentiments was written in the same style as the American _________________________ of 1776.

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Declaration of Independence

The convention at Seneca Falls was the start of a national women’s rights movement. One of the leaders of the national movement was ________________________. She was the daughter of an abolitionist. She said women should get equal pay and should go to college. She also wanted coeducation, where males and females go to school together

• Harriett Beecher Stowe

• Emily Dickinson

• Angelina Grimke

• Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony also started the country’s first women’s temperance organization. Susan B. Anthony and ___________________ met at a temperance meeting in 1851. They became friends, and they joined together to work for women’s rights.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriett Tubman

• Harriett Beecher Stowe

Opportunities for women increased. Women got the right to vote in________________ in 1890. Other states followed. Yet not until 1920 did women gain the right to vote across the country

• Texas

• New York

• Wyoming

• Virginia

Some people wanted better education for women. ___________________ thought that women should be trained for their traditional roles. The Milwaukee College for Women used her ideas. At that college, women learned to be successful wives, mothers, and homemakers.

• Harriett Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

• Susan B. Anthony

• Catharine Beecher

Some people thought that women would make skillful teachers. Still others thought women should be trained to be leaders and have a career. ______________________ was one of these women. She taught herself science and mathematics. In 1821, she set up the Troy Female Seminary in New York State. There, young women learned math, history, geography, and physics. They also learned homemaking subjects.

• Susan B. Anthony

• Emma Willard

• Harriett Beecher Stowe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton