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Women felt the vote was the only path to full civil rights

Women took drastic and organized protest at social expectation

Adapted tactics of abolitionists and temperance reformers

They were expected to inhabit a “separate sphere” of domestic life and had no place in trade, politics, legislation, etc.

Ostram and other women became active in their churches which redefined the notion of the domestic sphere

Dix made reports that prompted many states to improve their prisons and public hospitals

Women supported the movement led by Horace Mann to increase elementary schooling and improve quality of instruction

Female abolitionists asserted that traditional gender roles resulted in the domestic slavery of women

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This was an open declaration of rebellion by women on a male dominated society that clearly demonstrated demands for equality. Prior to this women had still been fighting for rights, but not as openly and aggressively as this. This document unified the feminist movement and key players in the fight for equality.

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Women gained the right to vote in 1920 (19th amendment; aka Susan B. Anthony Amendment). Only one woman who attended the Seneca Falls Convention was alive to see the law come into action.

New York law granted women the right to control their own wages, to own property acquired by trade, business, labors, or services, and assume sole guardianship of children if widowed.

Higher standards were set for them.

More educational and job opportunities were opened up to women and their salaries had greater potential to increase (though it didn’t exceed a man’s).  Women were able to head into male-dominant careers in law, medicine, clergy and corporate. This gave women more hope.

Movement is still strong: did not end with voting rights (one unifying cause during 1800s)

Has evolved to include several other elements such as sexuality, job opportunities, family law

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The convention marked the beginning of the women’s rights movement because women first publicly demanded the right to vote. The idea was so radical that the reactions from critics and the public were very negative since they have never challenged the social order before.

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Throughout her life, Mott was dedicated to secure emancipation for the oppressed such as women, African Americans, or people bound by strict religious doctrines. She gave credibility to the most radical of causes at the time and was an influential figure who initiated the movement for women’s rights.

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Elizabeth Stanton is one of the biggest influences in women rights movements and era due to her will to give women rights. She held multiple meetings, such as Seneca Falls and she was also the author of the Declaration of Sentiments.

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Mott and Stanton met at the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention,

Gathering of women’s rights activists organized on July 19 and 20, 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

Held in the town of Seneca Falls, New York

Issued a rousing manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence

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Quaker minister, abolitionist, women’s rights advocate

Played early and major role in American reform movement

Grew up in Quaker community where women were spiritually equal to men

Organized Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women

Helped draft Declaration of Sentiments

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The Declaration of Sentiments was an article written at Seneca falls, primarily  Elizabeth Stanton, to declare declare equality for women. It was signed by 68 women and 32 men that believed females had been unfairly oppressed. The declaration was modeled after the Declaration of independence, and listed women's grievances and 12 methods of reform including property ownership, educational opportunities, and divorce reform.

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Civil Rights activist, American suffragist, Abolitionist, figure in women's rights movement

Held the Seneca Falls Convention with 6 other women

Author of the Declaration of Sentiments