Women in Society

-cult of domesticity: limited options for women

husband, children, home, church

--work only before marriage

-could not vote in most places

-could not own property or keep wages if husband lived, no guardianship of children

Reformers

-Abolitionists / Suffrage: fight for the right to vote

Grimke sisters: abolitionists that taught slaves

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton: organized the Seneca Falls Convention, women’s rights

Susan B. Anthony leader of women’s rights, voted illegally

Sojourner Truth former slave, women’s rights, “ain’t I woman?”

-Temperance

move to ban alcohol—it is the cause of the evils of society

Women’s Movement

-women saw increased opportunities in reform movements

-Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

Women’s rights. Led by Lucrietta Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Declaration of Sentiments” based on Declaration of Independence

Reforms

-Women’s Education

Catherine Beecher

Oberlin College—1st co-ed college

-Health Reform

Elizabeth Blackwell: 1st woman to graduate medical school

Amelia Bloomer: published temperance newspaper, idea of bloomers

Seneca Falls Convention

• Read Comic provided.

• Complete part 1 of handout (1-5) and complete part 2 (do this on the back of the handout

Name Facts Accomplishments

Slave owner’s daughters, ______________

Ran school for girls in SC

Lucrietta Mott ______________ Seneca Falls Convention, excellent public speaker

Slave for 30 years before becoming free, abolitionist

Urged men to grant women rights

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Reformer Rehabilitation in ___________ and reform for ______________

Susan B. Anthony

Amelia Bloomer Women’s rights Publication of temperance movement, change in dress “Bloomers

Markets Expand

-by the mid 1800’s people were no longer totally self-sufficient

produce one product, buy all others

-specialization: (ex. Make one part of the finished product, rather than the entire thing)

-capitalism: production and distribution owned by individual or company

-standard of living rose for almost everyone

Transportation Changes

-Robert Fulton

steam powered ships: makes travel against the current possible

-many canals were built after Erie was completed: improves transportation

-growth of railroads: will transform transportation

Inventions Improve Life

-Charles Goodyear

vulcanized rubber

-I.M. Singer

sewing machines

-Samuel Morse

telegraph

Morse code: improves communication

Agriculture

-people began to move into the mid-western parts of the nation

-lots of available farm lands

-John Deere

steel plows

-Cyrus McCormick

mechanical reaper

**These two make farming and settlement of west easier**

Changing Workplace

-development of industry: continued expansion

-decline of skilled labor due to specialization

-growth of urban areas: cities and industrial areas

-cost of goods decreased and supply increased (supply and demand theory)

Factory System Begins

-Lowell textile mills 1st textile mill, located on rivers, most important industry before civil war

-factory system

-company town for young girls, work before marriage

Company towns: everything is owned by the main company in the town

-strict control over the workers lives

-factory conditions would warn of future problems

Working Conditions

-long hours

-six days a week

-poor ventilation and lighting

-unsafe working conditions

-development of labor unions and strikes

Immigration

-lots of immigration in the mid 1800’s (becomes referred to as “Old Immigration”

-mostly Irish or German

-most immigrants settled in groups, eventually replace working women at mills

-low wages of immigrants caused problems with other workers, immigrants will work for less

-Growth of Nativism: opposition to immigration

-Know-Nothing Party: opposed immigration

Resources• http://www.nwhm.org/images/Education/G

odey's%20Lady%20Book--1.jpg• http://www2.lhric.org/POCANTICO/women

enc/bloomer.jpg• http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/Facu

ltyPages/PamMack/lec323/spinner.jpg• http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/Irish/Irish_

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• Part 1—write a newspaper article about markets expanding and changes in labor and the workforce. Remember to pretend you are a newspaper reporter living in the Mid-1800s. Your newspaper article should summarize the main points from today’s lesson. Be creative with this! Have fun.

• Part 2—create an advertisement for one of the inventions you learned about today…be creative and be sure to include why this invention is so important!

**When complete, turn these two activities in with your Seneca Falls and Women in History Activity. STAPLE ALL WORK TOGETHER!**