Womens Rights
Slow progressWomens RightsWomens Rights Movement1840 American
abolitionists attended the first World Anti-Slavery Convention
(London)The Convention committee prohibited women from
participatingThis humiliated and angered American womenTwo to
RememberLucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady StantonMott was a school
teacherA Quaker ministerHer and her husband sheltered fugitive
slaves
Stanton was the daughter of a U.S Congressman/ NY Supreme Court
JudgeMarried an abolitionist lawyer
Both would attend the 1840 convention in LondonSeneca Falls
ConventionJuly 1848First ever womens rights convention (in
U.S.)Passed 12 resolutions Signed by 68 women and 32 men9th
resolution called for womens suffrageNot all women agreed with the
9th resolution and many pulled their support from the cause
Slow ProgressMany still believed the view that women should
influence public affairs from their home
The convention marked the beginning of organized movements for
womens rights
By 1890 more than 2,500 women a year graduated college
August 1920 the 19th amendment was passed and women gained the
right to voteDiversity and DifferencesGrowing DivisionsRising
ImmigrationThe new economy created a demand for cheap labor Enter
the immigrants here
Most arrived to America hungry, with no money, and in need of a
job
Immigration grew from 129,000 (1820s) to 540,000 (1830s) to 2.8
million (1850s)Irish and GermanIrish potato famine : 1845-1849Irish
immigration was at a high Became naturalized and sent for relatives
to come join themGermans wanted political freedom series of
attempted rebellions in 1848 across EuropeMost were farmers and
settled in the Midwest
Both groups would become a huge political force in upcoming
electionsIts Not Always SunnyMany immigrants were discriminated
against
Americans felt threatened or disapproved of their culture
Immigrants took low paying jobs just as unions were going on
strike for higher wages
Many Protestants disapproved of the Catholic religionNorth and
South TensionsSlaveryNorth against South for it
Womens RightsSouth was not very involved North ignited the
movements
ReligionNorth saw what the southern churches were doing as
wrong
