Women's Rights

Women's Rights

1. July 19-20th 1848

   • 1st gathering for women's rights. Seneca Falls, NY

2. 1896 - Two district factions of suffrage movement submerged

   • Stanton and Anthony - NWSA
     • Lucy Stone - AWSA

3. Cult of Domesticity

   • Submissiveness
     • Set clothing (corset)
       • Women should alwats submit
   • Piety
     • Religion
   • Purity
     • - Purity
       • - Virginity ~ Gift
         • Wife's job to keep husband
   • Domesticity
     • - Home
       • - Men go to work
         • Women stay at home

4. 1896 - Wyoming 1st state to grant women voting rights

   • Colorado - 1893
     • Utah - 1896
       • Idaho - 1896
   • Between 1910 - 1914 NAWSA intensified and additional states franchised to women
     • Washington, California, Arizona, Kansas, Oregon

5. Elizabeth Stanton

   • An american suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early Women's Rights movement.
     • Outspoken supporter of the Temperance Movement.
     • Began
   • Wrote Declaration of Sentiments

6. Susan B. Anthony

   • Joined the Women's Rights movement in 1852.
     • In 1900, she persuaded the University of Rochester to admit Women
       • Began to work together after the American Civil War. Both declining the support passage of the 14th and 15th ammendments to the United States Constitution.
   • Taught for 15 years, became active in temperance.

7. Alice Paul

   • American suffragist, feminist and women's rights activist.
     • Main leader and strategist of the 1910's campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment
       • Leader of the National Women's Party
         • Worked alongside her friend, Lucy Burns

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