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Womens Rights
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Women Wearing Pants?!
Women were not allowed to wear pants but then began wearing them in the eraly 1800s start of tehe womans rights movment. They were required to only wear thier skirts before they were able to wear pants. -
Emma Willard
Emma opend a school for woman so they could finally get an education. Nobody liked this idea and stated to say nasty things like the next thing they will be teaching are animals. -
Angelia Grimke
She wrote a book called "An appeal to christian women of the South". This was to teach women how to rebel so they couls try and gain their rights. -
Lowell Mill Girls
Some of the girls who worked in factories went on striek because They were being treated more like slaves then they were as women. They were getting paid only 2 dollars for a week, they gave all their money to the men in theier familes so that they could get an education. They would get hit, pushed, beat up, and so much more in the work place. -
Mary Lyon
She became very upset that the other school was not working out so she began to figure out other ideas for a school. The idea was called Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Then later in that year a college in ohio exceoted some woman into thier school. -
Elizabeth Candy Santon meets Lucretia Mott
They met at a convention to stop slavery and decided that they were going to hold a convention to improve womans rights -
African American Womens Rights: Sojourner Truth
Former slave who became a woman abolitionist and fought for womans rights. She had all rights to fight angainst both causes. The rights of the African American woman was worse then that of the whites. They were treated as property to do all the manual labor. -
Seneca Falls
300 men and women were there. Women wanted more equal rights and the right to vote. Effects:
-women got right to speak
-married allowed allowed more rights : kept children if divorced, they were allowed to own property in some states
-make thier own money -
Cult of Domesticity
This was that woman who are married shold keep what they do in their houses. They were limited to mostly everything except housewoek and childcare -
"Ain't I A Woman"
Speeach written by Sojourner Truth. This poem describes how badly she was treated and how her and teh other African American women were not treated as they were even alive they were just some thing that also was on earth.
