The document summarizes the history of the women's rights movement in the United States. It describes how women initially had no identity or legal rights and were viewed as physically and emotionally weak. It then discusses key figures like Mary Wollstonecraft, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony who advocated for women's rights and organized events like the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 to promote women's suffrage. The document also outlines the formation of organizations like the National Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association that worked to expand women's rights.

1. WOMEN’S RIGHTS & SUFFRAGE

2. BACKGROUND
• No identity
• No rights
• Gender differences were emphasized
• Physically and emotionally weak
• Cult of domesticity = HOME

3. CHANGES:
• Bore fewer children
• Decline of birthrate led to
more opportunities for jobs
• Women’s colleges were
established (for Elite)

4. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
• Vindication of Rights of Woman
• 1792
• Liberal feminist: individual woman
rights
• Honoring women talents and not be
measured by men’s standards
• Start of Women’s rights
• Mother of feminism
• Injustices of women: no rights
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/wollstonecraft/a/wollstonecraft-legacy.htm

5. LUCRETIA MOTT
• Born on January 3, 1793
• Quaker
• 1840 – men a part of the World
Anti-Slavery Convention refused to
seat her and other women as
delegates: led to her pledging
women’s rights
• Organized Seneca Falls Convention
with Stanton
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jan/mott.html

6. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
• Born in November 12, 1815
• Led the Seneca Falls
Convention with Mott
• Wrote the Declaration of
Sentiments
• Formed National Woman
Suffrage Association with
Susan B. Anthony
http://www.biography.com/people/elizabeth-cady-stanton-9492182

7. SUSAN B ANTHONY
• Quaker
• Educated
• Founder of Daughters of
Temperance – abuses of women
and children from alcoholic
husbands
• Lecturer for women’s rights
• A part of the National Women
Suffrage Association
• Suzy B’s
http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/sba/first.htm

8. SENECA FALLS CONVENTION, 1848
• New York
• July 19 - 20
• Men and women came
• Declaration of Sentiments =
equality
• Resolutions - Voting rights for
women (etc)
• Modern women’s rights
movement
http://historymartinez.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/seneca.jpg

9. NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE
ASSOCIATION
N a t i o n a l Wo m a n S u f f r a g e
Association
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan
B. Anthony
• Amendment in Constitution to
give them right to vote
• Equal education
• Equal employment opportunities
http://lwvnet.org/tn/nashville/files/the_history_of_womens_suff
rage.pdf

10. AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE
ASSOCIATION
• Lucy Stone & Henry Blackwell
• Induce individual states to give the
right to vote for women
http://lwvnet.org/tn/nashville/files/the_history_of_w
omens_suffrage.pdf

11. NAWSA
• National American Woman
Suffrage Association
• American Woman Suffrage
Association (AWSA) &
National Women Suffrage
Association (NWSA)
combined
• No competition
• Worked as one group to
contribute to the women’s
rights movement
http://lwvnet.org/tn/nashville/files/the_history_of_womens_suffrage.p
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