A Call for Women

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A Call for Womens Rights
Chapter 15, Section 3

• Why did some women call for equal rights in the
  1800s?
• What goals were set at the Seneca Falls
  Convention?
• How did women win new educational opportunities?

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Seeking Equal Rights for Women
Chapter 15, Section 3

• Reasons people sought equal rights for women in
  the mid-1800s
• Women could not vote or hold office.
• When a woman married, all of her property became
  her husbands property.
• A working womans wages belonged to her husband.
• A husband had the right to hit his wife.
• The abolitionist movement made people aware that
  women, too, lacked full social and political
  rights.

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Seeking Equal Rights for Women
Chapter 15, Section 3
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Goals of the Seneca Falls Convention
Chapter 15, Section 3

• Seneca Falls Conventionmeeting held in 1848 at
  Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss the problems
  that women faced. It was the start of the womens
  rights movement, an organization campaign for
  equal rights.
• Goals
• The convention issued a Declaration of
  Sentiments, which proclaimed, We hold these
  truths to be self-evident that all men and women
  are created equal.
• Resolutions demanded equality at work, at school,
  and at church.
• A resolution demanding womens right to vote
  passed narrowly.

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New Educational Opportunities for Women
Chapter 15, Section 3

• Reformers said that education was a key to
  womens equality.
• Reformers opened new schools for women.
• Emma Willard opened a high school for girls in
  Troy, New York.
• Mary Lyon opened Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in
  Massachusetts, the first womens college in the
  United States.
• A few mens colleges began to admit women.
• Elizabeth Blackwell attended medical school at
  Geneva College in New York.
• Maria Mitchell became a noted astronomer.
• Sarah Josepha Hale became editor of Godeys
  Ladys Book.
• Antoinette Blackwell was the first American woman
  ordained a minister.

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Section 3 Assessment
Chapter 15, Section 3

• The womens rights movement demanded that women
• a) work outside the home.
• b) be given equal rights at work, at school, and
  at church.
• c) be given certain rights that men did not
  have.
• d) give up their husbands names.
• Before the mid-1800s no woman in the United
  States
• a) learned to read.
• b) studied dancing and drawing.
• c) went to college.
• d) learned to care for a family.

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Section 3 Assessment
Chapter 15, Section 3

• The womens rights movement demanded that women
• a) work outside the home.
• b) be given equal rights at work, at school, and
  at church.
• c) be given certain rights that men did not
  have.
• d) give up their husbands names.
• Before the mid-1800s no woman in the United
  States
• a) learned to read.
• b) studied dancing and drawing.
• c) went to college.
• d) learned to care for a family.

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this section? Click here.