Name: _______________________________
USVA History
Chapter 8.3 – Women and Reform
1. In the mid-1800s, women became move active in a variety of social causes including the
abolition and temperance movements, which violated the basic principle of the
_____________________________________, which was the expected role for married
women to remain in charge of the home and child-raising.
2. As part of the push for increased women’s rights, many women demanded the right to
vote, or women’s _____________________.
3. _____________________________________ was the woman primarily responsible for
starting the women’s rights movement, including a convention for women’s rights.
4. The first women’s rights convention was held at ____________________________, New
York, where women gathered to discuss their rights.
5. The “____________________________________________” was the document drafted
by the first women’s rights advocates and was based on the Declaration of Independence.
6. __________________________ was founded in 1890 by _________________________
and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in an attempt to push for women’s suffrage.