19th Century Women's Reform Movement

What was an immediate outcome of the Seneca Falls Convention?

• It led to an amendment giving women the right to vote.

• It helped create an equal rights amendment.

• It led to the election of the first woman in Congress.

• It helped create an organized movement for women's rights.

What is Sojourner Truth arguing in this speech? (Choose 2)

• Her experiences prove that women are treated fairly and viewed as equals to men.

• Her experiences prove that women are better than men.

• Her experiences prove that women of different races are treated differently.

• Her experiences prove that women need to be taken care of.

• Her experiences prove that women are strong and capable.

Which statement BEST describes the role the Seneca Falls Convention played in the women’s suffrage movement?

• It was the convention that expanded women’s suffrage to other countries.

• It was the convention that approved the 19th amendment.

• It was the convention that first organized a movement toward women’s suffrage in the United States.

• It was the convention that led to the abolitionist movement.

Both ________ and __________ organized the first women's rights convention.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony

• Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott

• Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth

• Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

How did women joining groups like Temperance, abolition, and suffrage organizations effect society?

• provided women jobs

• expanded the role of women in social reforms

• caused women to move to rural areas of the nation

• inspired them to become teachers out west

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott are MOST associated with what social issue during the 19th Century?

• women's equality

• abolition of slavery

• the temperance movement

• increased public education

The Seneca Falls Convention was held in 1848 at the Wesleyan Chapel in New York. What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

• the first anti-slavery convention in world's history

• a convention to nominate Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president

• the first women's rights convention in world's history

• a convention to form a political party for women

The PRIMARY goal of the abolitionist movement was to

• immediately emancipate or free all enslaved people.

• allow the gradual release of enslaved people.

• end the importation of enslaved people from Africa.

• make mandatory the education of all enslaved people.

How did the growth of these organizations most affect the role of women in US society?

• by providing economic opportunities for women in urban areas

• by expanding the participation of women in social reform

• By increasing the number of women teachers in rural areas

• By securing the establishment of private universities for women

Reformers such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (pictured here) were most concerned with...

• abolishing slavery.

• trying to keep the U.S. out of World War I.

• prison reform.

• women's rights.