THE SENECA FALLS CONVENTION AND TRUE WOMANHOOD
• Questions arise: Where is the rightful place for women-is it in the home or somewhere else?
• After 2nd Great Awakening, women were expected to take the moral job of raising families
• “True Womanhood” was the idea that women should stay at home and value that lifestyle
WHAT IS TRUE WOMANHOOD?
• Many women did not want to stay at home
• In 1848, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton organized the Seneca Falls Convention
in NY• Both women were
abolitionists• “Declaration of
Sentiments and Resolutions”-women’s
grievances• Early suffrage movement
WOMEN WANT RIGHTS
• By 1860, at least 15 states permitted widows to keep their property and estates after the deaths of their
husband• Women’s suffrage movement starts gaining ground
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