Improving prisons creating asylums expanding

2. Improving Prisons, Creating Asylums, Expanding
Education
5. 1850s, most teachers were women, in part
because of Beecher’s arguments but also because
women could be paid less than men.

What happened in 1840 with female
abolitionists?
What did the Seneca Falls activists rely on?
What happened in New York in 1860?
1. Abolitionist Women
A.
Women were crucial participants in the
antislavery movement because they understood
the sexual abuse female slaves experienced
during their life time.
B.
Maria W. Stewart, a Garrisonian abolitionist and
an African American, lectured to mixed
audiences in the early 1830s.
C.
Women began to challenge the subordinate status
of their sex.
2. Seneca Falls and Beyond
B.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
organized a gathering in Seneca Falls, New York,
that outlined a coherent statement of women’s
equality.
of Independence and repudiated the idea that the
assignment of separate spheres for men and
women was the natural order of society.
E.
Susan B. Anthony joined the women’s rights
movement and created a network of female
political “captains” who lobbied state
legislatures for women’s rights.

In your own words and in complete sentences, write a 3 – 4 sentence summary paragraph.