2. WOMEN IN THE
1800’S Few educational
opportunities
Limited job opportunities
Not paid equally
Few property rights
(marriage)
Could not serve on juries
Could not vote (suffrage)
4. THE WOMEN’S
RIGHTS MOVEMENT
STARTS
Women fought in the
temperance & abolitionist
movements
• Began to realize that they
needed to fight for their own
rights too
5. SENECA FALLS
CONVENTION
Seneca Falls Convention –
The first public meeting about
women’s rights held in the U.S.
• 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY
7. SENECA FALLS
CONVENTION
They wrote the
Declaration of
Sentiments –
Detailed beliefs
about social injustice
towards women
• Used the Dec. of
Ind. as their guide
11. OPPOSING WOMEN’S
RIGHTS
Many opposed women’s
rights
They felt that women:
• Should stay in the home
• Would neglect their children
• Needed men to protect them