Women's Rights

How was the 1850 National Woman’s Rights Convention structured to generate widespread support for women’s rights?

• Both male and female political and social leaders, pushing for a variety of reforms, were invited to the convention.

• Only prominent men who could write legislation to promote women’s equality were invited to the convention.

• Only women committed to fighting for women’s rights were invited to the convention.

• Representatives of the news media were invited to ensure publicity and good coverage of the event.

The abolitionist movement led women to speak out for women's rights mainly because

• they were not treated as equals within the movement.

• they wanted freedom for African American women as well as men.

• they developed a taste for political activism in the movement.

• they wanted the right to vote so that they could vote to end slavery.

What was the main reason that few girls were given a good education in the early 1880s?

• It was too expensive.

• People believed they didn't need one.

• People didn't want them to compete with men for jobs.

• They were thought to be incapable of learning.

What was significant about Elizabeth Blackwell?

• She founded the first women's college in the United States.

• She opened the first high school for girls in the United States.

• She was the first woman to become a minister in the United States.

• She was the first woman to get a medical degree in the United States.eliza

How did women's lives change during the mid-1800s?

• They came to be seen as their husbands’ equals.

• They called for greater equality.

• They had greater chances for education and careers.

• They became leading abolitionists.

Women and men gathered here to discuss women's rights to education, voting, and jobs.

• Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

• Montgomery, Alabama

• Boston, Massachusetts

• Seneca Falls, New York

This suffragist worked with Susan B. Anthony for women's rights.

• Fredrick Douglas

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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• John D. Rockefeller

This amendment gave women the right to vote.

• 19th amendment

• 15th amendment

This woman escaped slavery to fight for civil rights and women's rights for the rest of her life

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Sojourner Truth

• Susan B. Anthony

• Carrie Chapman Catt

The right to vote

• suffrage

• monopoly

• strike

• labor unions