Women's Rights

July 19-20th 1848
1. 1st gathering for women's rights. Seneca Falls, NY
1896 - Two district factions of suffrage movement submerged
1. Stanton and Anthony - NWSA
  1. Lucy Stone - AWSA
Cult of Domesticity
1. Submissiveness
  1. Set clothing (corset)
    1. Women should alwats submit
2. Piety
  1. Religion
3. Purity
  1. - Purity
    1. - Virginity ~ Gift
      1. Wife's job to keep husband
4. Domesticity
  1. - Home
    1. - Men go to work
      1. Women stay at home
1896 - Wyoming 1st state to grant women voting rights
1. Colorado - 1893
  1. Utah - 1896
    1. Idaho - 1896
2. Between 1910 - 1914 NAWSA intensified and additional states franchised to women
  1. Washington, California, Arizona, Kansas, Oregon
Elizabeth Stanton
1. An american suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early Women's Rights movement.
  1. Outspoken supporter of the Temperance Movement.
  2. Began
2. Wrote Declaration of Sentiments
Susan B. Anthony
1. Joined the Women's Rights movement in 1852.
  1. In 1900, she persuaded the University of Rochester to admit Women
    1. 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.
2. Taught for 15 years, became active in temperance.
Alice Paul
1. American suffragist, feminist and women's rights activist.
  1. Main leader and strategist of the 1910's campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment
    1. Leader of the National Women's Party
      1. Worked alongside her friend, Lucy Burns

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