Chapter 8.4

Question 0

Sojourner Truth

Answer 0

A former slave from NY who held audiences spellbound with her powerful speech and arguments

Question 1

Matrilineal

Answer 1

The inheritance of family names and property followed the female line in a family

Question 2

Women’s movement

Answer 2

A movement working for greater rights and opportunities for women, of the early and middle 1800s

Question 3

Lucretia Mott

Answer 3

An abolitionist, active reformer, supported temperance and abolitionist causes. Helped found American anti-slavery society and the Philadelphia female anti-slavery society

Question 4

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 4

Abolitionist, active reformer, supported temperance and abolitionist causes. Married leading abolitionist, Henry Stanton

Question 5

Seneca falls convention

Answer 5

First women’s rights convention in Seneca falls NY. Fredrick Douglass attended. Delegates adopted Declaration of Sentiments

Question 6

Amelia bloomer

Answer 6

Published The Lily. Wore pants under shorter dresses, to support women’s equality, therefore known as bloomers

Question 7

The Lily

Answer 7

A newspaper published by Amelia bloomer which advocated equality of women in all things-including the right to wear pants instead of dresses

Question 8

Married women’s property act

Answer 8

1848- guaranteed many property rights for women in NY