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Objectives

1. Identify what the Seneca Falls Convention called for and the leaders of the convention

2. Identify the leaders of the Women’s movement during the progressive era and their means to get attention for women’s suffrage.

3. Describe what western states allowed women to do that pushed for the 19th Amendment.

4. Describe what most woman were to do for their education prior to the Civil War and how it changed near 1900

IV. The Women’ Movement

A. Started in 1848 Seneca Falls, NY

B. Leaders of the movement of the Seneca Falls Convention

1. Susan B. Anthony

a. Active abolitionist

b. Was seen as the strategist for the Seneca Fall Convention

2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

a. She was at first an abolitionist

b. Realized that she was also oppressed because she was a woman

c. Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments

1. Based on the Declaration of Independence

2. Listed many of the complaints against men

3. Wanted equality

4. The only area not pushed was suffrage

3. Both leaders would push for suffrage after Civil War

C. New Leaders arise with the Progressive Movement

1. Carrie Chapman Catt

a. Wanted national suffrage

b. The only way to do this was through a constitutional

amendment

2. Alice Paul

a. Wanted to have woman suffrage

b. She was more outspoken

c. Used hunger strikes

d. Called to have Woodrow Wilson to not re-elected

D. Western States lead way for suffrage

1. Around 1900 western states allow woman to vote

2. This put pressure on many states to pass suffrage laws

3. Finally woman get suffrage with 19th Amendment

a. Passed in 1919

b. Takes affect in 1920

E. Education for woman

1. Prior to the Civil War most woman were to be in finishing schools

a. Learn how to cook and sew

b. Be a good and faithful wife

2. The exception was Elizabeth Blackwell

a. First female doctor in 1849

b. Graduated first in her class

3. During the Progressive era woman going to college increased to

100,000

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