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15.3 The Women’s Movement

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Seneca Falls Convention

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott
  • 300 people attend meeting
  • 40 men too

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Women’s Suffrage

  • Women’s ability to vote and be equal in society
  • Ending discrimination of women
  • Frederick Douglass

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Seneca Falls Declaration

  • Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
  • Modeled after DOI
  • Called for equality

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Anthony & Stanton

  • Susan B Anthony meets Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Equal pay
  • College
  • Coeducation

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New Opportunities

  • Colleges begin opening
  • Mary Lyon opens first women’s college

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New Laws

  • Had few rights
  • Can now own some property
  • Divorce laws

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Trailblazers

  • Elizabeth Blackwell
    • Accepted into Med School
  • Maria Mitchell
    • First to discover a comet under a telescope
    • Works for Vassar College