Frank Anderson, Dakota Duncan, Sarah Lorenz, Joseph Winnicki
Abigail Adams was one of the early believer of women’s rights and spoke about it out loud.
Believed women should have right to have power over their land if their husband died.
Abigail was the wife of John Adams and wrote letters to him about her beliefs that could be read on page 197 of your text book.
1. Independent Order of Good Templars
a. Protected homes from drinks and other evils
2. Female Guardian Society
a. Wanted to supervise the upbringing of children and their education
Lydia Finny elected president of society
Wanted to redeem fallen women
1.Founded homes for poor women and prostitutes.
Went to brothels to sing and pray
Made seduction a crime in Massachusetts (1846) and New York (1848)
Wanted to improve public places such as schools and hospitals.
Wanted to prevent women from falling under evil influences
Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized meeting.
Gathered in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848
Used Abigail Adams ideas of property rights and that men and women are equal.
Said men are tyrants over women
70 women and 30 men attended
Most men who heard about this idea believed it was wrong
Angelina and Sarah
Abolitionist speakers
Congregational Clergymen said they had to stop speaking
Sarah turned to bible and proved that nowhere in bible does it say women can’t follow God’s duties and that men and women are created equal
Said that women were treated as domestic slaves
Dorothea Dix
Mary Walker Ostram
Women’s Sphere of Influence
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Susan B. Anthony
Reverend Philemon Fowler
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Thanks to Joseph Winnicki, Frank Anderson, Docie Duncan, Sarah Lorenz
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