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Reading Notes 18: An Era of Reform

The Women’s Rights Movement: 18.6 & 18.7

Read 18.6 and 18.7 pages 248-250 and answer the following questions.

1. What were the conditions before the reform movement? Describe the ways women were treated unfairly. What rights were denied to them?

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b. __________________________________________________________________________

c. __________________________________________________________________________

d. __________________________________________________________________________

e. __________________________________________________________________________

f. __________________________________________________________________________

g. __________________________________________________________________________

2. What did the leaders of the movement do to achieve reform? Explain how each leader contributed to the Women’s Rights Movement.

|Leader |Contributions to the Reform Movement |

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|Elizabeth Cady Stanton | |

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|Lucretia Mott | |

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|Susan B. Anthony | |

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|Elizabeth Blackwell | |

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|Sojourner Truth | |

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|Frederick Douglass | |

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3. What was the “Declaration of Sentiments?” What was it modeled after?

4. At the Seneca Falls Convention, there was a debate over including the right to vote in the list of resolutions. Explain both sides of this debate.

5. Why do you think Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed the right to vote was the most important right?

6. What advances were achieved as a result of the Seneca Falls Convention?

a. __________________________________________________________________________

b. __________________________________________________________________________

c. __________________________________________________________________________

d. __________________________________________________________________________

7. How successful was the Women’s Rights Movement in the mid - 1800s? Did they achieve complete equality for women? Was this reform finished or unfinished? Explain why.

The Women’s Rights Movement was very/somewhat/not at all (circle one) successful because ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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