The document summarizes key events and developments in the women's movement between 1812-1860. It discusses how the Second Great Awakening led women to take on a more active role through church reform groups. Important figures like Dorothea Dix and Sojourner Truth advocated for prisoners' rights and abolition. The industrialization of the Northeast provided jobs for women. The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was the first women's rights convention, adopting a "Declaration of Sentiments" modeled on the Declaration of Independence. Though it yielded few immediate gains, it helped launch the 19th century women's movement seeking greater rights and equality.

1. Antebellum Reforms
1812-1860
Women’s Movement

2. Greater Role for Women
 The Second Great Awakening led to a more active role for
women.
 Women joined reform groups sponsored by their churches.
 Women played a major role in the education movement.
 Dorothea Dix-treatment of prisoners and those with mental
illnesses
 Many leaders of temperance movement were women…them
and children were the primary victims of abuse of alcohol.
 Sojourner Truth-former slave from New York who was a
leading abolitionist lecturer.

3. Women Enter the Workplace
 The rapid industrialization of the Northeast provided an
opportunity for women to work outside the home.
 Started to fight for better wages and working conditions.

4. Women Fight for Rights
 Women start to see their own social restrictions as being
comparable to slavery.
 Women’s movement
 Movement for greater rights and opportunities for women
 Lasted into the early 1900s
 Began to publish ideas in pamphlets and books.
 Started to speak up for full equality.

5. Seneca Falls Convention
 Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 1848-Organized the nation’s first Women’s Rights Convention in
Seneca Falls, New York.
 Delegates adopted a “Declaration of Sentiments”
 Modeled after the language of the Declaration of Independence
 Convention didn’t yield many concrete improvements but set
the stage for the women’s movement.

6. Seneca Falls Convention Inspires
 Amelia Bloomer
 Attended convention
 Became a leading voice for women’s rights.
 Her newspaper, The Lily, advocated for the equality of women in
all things…even the right to wear pants instead of dresses.
 Susan B. Anthony
 Involved in the temperance and abolition movement.
 Most well known for her involvement in pushing for women’s
suffrage.

7. Some Gains Made
 Married Women’s Property Act
 Passed in NY
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked hard to get it passed
 Guaranteed property rights for women
 These efforts would lead to decades of women pushing for
equal rights and eventually the right to vote.