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