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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