Ante-bellum+Reform+Movements+-+Women's+Rights


 * ignore this page Women’s Rights **

Property (led to New York’s Married Women’s Property Act, 1860) Right to their own wages Child custody
 * Rights won in several states (1840-1860):**

At Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Beginning with a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, it focused on women’s suffrage.
 * The first Women’s Rights Convention**

Men lived in the public sphere, and women lived in the private sphere. Politics, business… These were fields reserved for men. Women’s job as moral compasses was caring for the family and the home. They also joined temperance, moral reform, and antislavery societies, advocating for others’ rights (another outlet for their "ethically correct nature"). Then they realized they could advocate for themselves too.
 * Separate spheres**

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Sarah Grimke Angelina Grimke Susan B. Anthony
 * Famous suffragists/feminists from this time period:**