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U.S History
The Women’s Movement
March 7, 2011
California Standard
• 8.6.6 Examine the women’s suffrage movement (biographies, writing and speeches of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Fuller, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony).
Learning Objective: Students will list the accomplishments of the Women’s Suffrage
Movement lead by Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton by creating a
brochure regarding women’s rights.
Content Vocabulary
• Temperance– The use of little or no alcoholic drink
• Abolition– A person who strongly favors doing away with
slavery
• In the early 1800’s many women were not allowed to vote and had limited access to education and jobs. They also had few choices in regards to rights and were not seen as being equal to men.
Women’s Rights
Main Idea• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and
Susan B. Anthony are women who worked for Women’s Rights in the 1800’s. Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott dedicated their life to the women’s right movement. They also organized the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Susan B. Anthony worked for equal pay for women as well as the right for women to vote. These women lead the way in the fight for women to gain individual rights in the United States.
Checking for Understanding
• What is our objective for today?
– A. Slavery
– B. Women’s Suffrage
– C. Factory working conditions
Objective: Students will list the accomplishments of the Women’s Suffrage Movement lead by Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott and
Elizabeth Stanton.
• Susan B. Anthony:– worked for women’s right
and temperance• Temperance – the use of little or no
alcohol.
– called for equal pay for women
– wanted college training for girls
– called for coeducation (the teaching of boys and girls together)
Women’s rights, co-education, equal pay
• Susan B. Anthony argued for __________, the teaching of boys and girls together.
• She also called for ___________ for women doing the same job.
• Susan B. Anthony’s spent her entire life working for _______________.
Restate-Apply-Justify(think, pair and share)
• What were some of the things that Susan B. Anthony worked for?
Objective: Students will list the accomplishments of the Women’s Suffrage Movement lead by Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott and
Elizabeth Stanton.
• Lucretia Mott:– Was a Quaker (religion)– Believed in the
temperance movement– Workers rights
(factories)– Abolition (ending of
slavery)
Checking for Understanding
• Lucretia Mott believe in all of the below except _____________.
– A. Women’s rights– B. Temperance movement– C. Slavery– D. Equal rights
.
Objective: Students will list the accomplishments of the Women’s Suffrage Movement lead by Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott and
Elizabeth Stanton.
• Elizabeth Stanton:– Is credited with founding of the Women’s
movement.– Was a Abolitionist– Wrote the, “Declaration of Sentiments”
• a document modeled on the Declaration of Independence
– Organized the first Women’s Rights Conference at Seneca Falls, New York
Seneca Falls, New York
• Seneca Falls Convention of 1848– Issued a Declaration of
Sentiments and Resolutions
• ….that all men and women are created equal
• An end to all laws that discriminated against women
• Demanded that women be allowed to enter all professions
• And the right to vote (suffage)
Pick the correct answer choice
• The Seneca Falls Convention organized by Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott dealt with what subject?
– A. Education Reform– B. Men rights– C. Women rights– D. Children rights
Objective: Students will list the accomplishments of the Women’s Suffrage Movement lead by Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott and
Elizabeth Stanton.
• The a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions included all of the following except– A. that all men are created equal– B. An end to all laws that discriminated
against women– C. Demanded that women be allowed to
enter all professions– D. And the right to vote (suffage)
Closure
• Please list the accomplishment of each of the women listed below.
• Susan B. Anthony
• Lucretia Mott
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton