Women's Movement

1820's: Cult of Domesticity
1. 4 ideals- Piety, Purity, Submissiveness, Domesticity. Told women how to live their lives.
2. Believed that a woman's place was in her home and she was to be completely submissive to her husband. She was supposed to worship and love God and remain pure for her husband,
3. Though some women could work (doing jobs such as sewing or cleaning), they had no right to their income. Instead, their husbands had complete control over all money.
4. Though it was considered the mother's full time job to raise children, when it came to decisions regarding them, the father had all rights to do anything he wished, such as give the child up for adoption, even if it is against the mothers wishes.
5. For women to go against the Cult of Domesticity was shameful for them, their husbands, and their children.
6. Also known as The Cult of True Womanhood
Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Stanton
1. 1850: The two women meet, they later will become one of the most powerful collaborations in history.
2. 1869: Stanton and Anthony create the National Woman's Suffrage Association.
3. Together, the women traveled all over the country to promote women rights. They made speeches, handed out fliers, published newspapers, and more. Their strategy was to go from state to state, rather than target the federal government.
4. Stanton was considered one of the first leaders for the women's rights movement. Though she herself was married with children, she was still very devoted to the movement.
5. Anthony campaigned not only for the right to vote, but also to abolish slavery. Because she never married or had children, she was able to travel more than Stanton. She advocated for equality for everyone her entire life.
6. Both women attend the Seneca Falls convention, leading to the Declaration of Sentiments. Though Susan B. Anthony only attended the meeting, Stanton played a big role in the organization of the convention, and was even one of the speakers.
7. Despite the setbacks caused by the Civil War, the women continue to fight for suffrage.
Alice Paul
1. As a member of the National Woman's Suffrage Association, Alice Paul traveled to Washington D.C. to gain more publicity for the movement. She organizes a huge parade, which became violent, putting the suffrage movement in the spotlight.
2. Paul's main focus was to bring an amendment to the constitution, giving women the same rights then men had.
3. 1916: Paul formed the National Woman's Party, and severed all ties to the NAWSA. The NWP organized :SIlent Sentinels" who stood outside the white house in protest. When World War I began, people saw the protests as unpatriotic. The women were soon attacked by angry mobs, and later, the protesters were arrested. Despite the setbacks caused by the war, the women still continued to fight.
4. Suffrage prisoners refused to be beaten, and instead continued to protest for their right to vote. Many of the women, including the elderly, were beaten, pushed, and thrown. The women who attempted to protest through refusing to eat were inhumanly force fed.
5. When news of what was happening to Paul and the other women was brought to the public, people began to demand the release of the women. Many new supporters joined the women's rights movement out of sympathy for these women.

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