M16,L5, Women's Rights

document officially requesting equal rights for women

(vocab word)

• Declaration of Independence

• U.S. Constitution

• Declaration of Sentiments

• Declaration of Women's Rights

spokesperson for the Anti-Slavery Society and the women’s rights movement; co-founder of Woman Suffrage Association

(vocab word)

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Lucy Stone

• Susan B. Anthony

• Matilda Joslyn Gage

women’s rights supporter who argued for equal pay for equal work, the right of women to enter male professions, and property rights

(vocab word)

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Lucy Stone

• Susan B Anthony

• Matilda Joslyn Gage

supporter of women’s rights who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention; co-founder of Woman Suffrage Association

(vocab word)

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Lucy Stone

• Susan B. Anthony

• Matildda Joslyn Gage

the first organized public meeting about women’s rights held in the United States

(vocab word)

• Declaration of Sentiments

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Constitutional Convention

• Women's Right's Convention

co-founder of National Woman Suffrage Association; writer and advocate for women’s rights

(vocab word)

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Lucy Stone

• Susan B. Anthony

• Matilda Joslyn Gage

Why did Sarah Grimké and some other members of the women’s rights movement refuse to marry?

(pg 529 4th paragraph)

• They did not want to force their husbands to support them.

• They feared that marriage would prevent them from developing as an individual.

• They did not want to give up their property rights to their husbands.

• They feared that marriage would distract them from campaigning for equal rights.

Many leaders of the women’s rights movement were also important members of the ______movement.

• abolition

• educational

•  environmental

• temperance

Many people who opposed the women’s rights movement felt that a woman required in order to survive.

(pg 531 1st paragraph)

• the protection of a man

• a college education

• property rights

• employment