1. CHAPTER 14:
New Movements in
AmericaSection 5:
Women’s Rights

2. WOMEN IN THE
1800’S Few educational
opportunities
 Limited job opportunities
 Not paid equally
 Few property rights
(marriage)
 Could not serve on juries
 Could not vote (suffrage)

3. 1800’s
Women

4. THE WOMEN’S
RIGHTS MOVEMENT
STARTS
 Women fought in the
temperance & abolitionist
movements
• Began to realize that they
needed to fight for their own
rights too

5. SENECA FALLS
CONVENTION
 Seneca Falls Convention –
The first public meeting about
women’s rights held in the U.S.
• 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY

6. SENECA FALLS
CONVENTION
• Organized by Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Lucretia Mott

7. SENECA FALLS
CONVENTION
 They wrote the
Declaration of
Sentiments –
Detailed beliefs
about social injustice
towards women
• Used the Dec. of
Ind. as their guide

10. OTHER LEADERS
 Lucy Stone
 Susan B. Anthony

11. OPPOSING WOMEN’S
RIGHTS
 Many opposed women’s
rights
 They felt that women:
• Should stay in the home
• Would neglect their children
• Needed men to protect them