8.3: Women and Reform

MATES US History 1, Holland 2024

Cult of Domesticity

belief that married women should restrict their activites to home and family

Sarah and Angelina Grimke

daughter of a slaveholder, spoke out against slavery and gender equality

Temperance movement

the effort to prevent the drinking of alcohol

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

headed the first women’s rights convention

Seneca Falls Convention

• New York (1848)

• “Declaration of Sentiments” — all men and women are created equal

• held my Stanton and Mott

Sojourner Truth

born a slave—an aspiring speaker arguing for abolition and women’s rights