Chelsea Bann & Lea Senft

MARY C. VAUGHAN AND THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS

MOVEMENT

• Passionate about women’s rights and quick to join the Women’s Rights

Movement

• Strong advocate for the Temperance Movement

• Became President of the Temperance Movement at the first meeting in 1852

MARY C. VAUGHAN

“To me, the sun in the heavens at noonday is not more visible than is the right of women, equally

with man, to participate in all that concerns human welfare.” – Fredrick Douglass, 1866

Early women’s suffrage began in 1815 with the Female Seminary Movement which encouraged education for women separate from men. - This first sparked the idea that women

were capable of serious study.

As the abolition of slavery began in the 1830s, women began to question their role in society.

THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT

• As industrialization flourished, women looked for better pay and treatment for their labor.

• The need for better working conditions lead to The Female Labor Reform in New England in 1844.

• After the reform failed, the Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls was held in 1848.

- Here the Married Women’s Property Act

was passed, extending their rights to property after marriage.

• As conventions extended throughout to the US, society began allowing women to speak at Anti-Slavery Conventions.

THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE 1800’S

The Temperance Movement was an anti-alcohol movement.

• In the 1800s women could not get a divorce on the grounds of a drunken husband.

- The wife of an alcoholic family would sometimes try to squander the family’s money to avoid the husband’s spending on liquor, since the wife had no control over finances.

- All custodial rights of the children went to the drunken husband.

THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT

In 1855 women began the first Temperance Movement which allowed women to divorce their alcoholic husbands and to get custodial

rights for their children.

Women like Mary C. Vaughan and Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke up for women and their

children at the conference in 1855.

THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT

After the convention women were still denied the right to speak at anti-slavery conventions.

Women who attempted to speak at conventions were gagged, crowded off the platform, or men would vote to keep the woman silenced until the

meeting ended.

However, Mary C. Vaughn succeeded in bringing the

message to New York state and more women began to join the Temperance Movement.

AFTER THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT

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