Reform for Women

Question 1

What did many women fight for before Women’s rights?

Answer 1

abolition to slavery

Question 2

Who were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

Answer 2

Abolitionists and women’s rights activits

Question 3

What did Mott and Stanton organize, when, and where?

Answer 3

First women’s rights convention
-July 1848 Seneca Falls, NY

Question 4

What did the convention create?

Answer 4

Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

Question 5

What did the document demand women be allowed?

Answer 5

be allowed equal pay, education, and profession.

Question 6

What was the most controversial issue and define it?

Answer 6

woman suffrage - right to vote in elections

Question 7

Which woman was adamant that women’s suffrage be included?

Answer 7

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 8

What 2 words were added to the 1st part of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 8

“and women”

Question 9

What religious group did many reformers belong to?

Answer 9

The Quakers

Question 10

Who was Susan B. Anthony and what did she fight for?

Answer 10

-Abolitionest, Quaker, advocate for women’s rights (believed in coeducation)
-women’s rights and suffrage

Question 11

What state on the west frontier was the 1st to grant women suffrage and when?

Answer 11

Wyoming 1890

Question 12

What did Emma Willard set up, what subjects were taught and when?

Answer 12

-Troy Female Seminary 1821
-mathematics, history, geography, and physics

Question 13

Why is Mary Lyon important?

Answer 13

1st college female- Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary in Mass. in 1837

Question 14

What did the new state of CA allow women to do?

Answer 14

married women could own property

Question 15

What was Elizabeth Blackwell famous for being

Answer 15

1st female doctor

Question 16

What year was the 19th amendment created and what was it?

Answer 16

1920, Women’s Suffrage