jan 1, 1848 - Women’s Rights and Seneca Falls & The Abolitionist Movements -CCOT_

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WOMEN RIGHTS AND SENECA FALLS
CONTINUITY
-Similar to Republican Motherhood, women who didn't work outside the homes were still expected to follow the Cult of Domesticity, focusing on controlling the home.
-Women's involvement in reforms, such as Abolitionist, was looked down upon and women weren't taken seriously politically.
-Women's rights remained to be overshadowed by other issues

CHANGE
-1848: the Seneca Falls Convention was the first womens rights convention in America History, and the Declaration of Sentiments was created, which called for equality for men and women.
-There was rise in Women reformers:
->Elizabeth Cady Stanton – co-organizer of Seneca Falls, leading advocate for women’s suffrage.
->Lucretia Mott – Quaker abolitionist and women’s rights activist, co-organizer of Seneca
Falls.
->Sarah and Angelina Grimké – Southern sisters who advocated for both abolition and women’s rights in the 1830s–1840s.

ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENTS
CONTINUITY
-Anti-Slavery efforts existed since the colonial era, mostly in Northern states
-Free African American best choice for advocating for equality
- Enslaved people risisted slavery throigh rebelion, like Nat turners Rebellion which killed 50+ white people.


CHANGE
-Morals and religious opposition to slavery increased, as Christians began viewing slavery as a sin
-American Colonization Society (1816)- wanted to let Free African Americans relocate back to African Colonies
-Liberty Party(1840) aimed to end slavery through legislation and elections
African American Leaders were on the rise:
-> Fredrick Douglas- free slave, and author of the North Star
-> Harriet Tubman- helped with the Underground Railroad
-> Sojourner truth; famous speech "Ain't I a Women"
-> William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of The Liberator and radical anti slavery advocate

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