Chapter 12 Section 3 Notes
The Struggle Begins
In 1820, the rights of American women were __________________.
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They could not ___________
They could not ______________________
They could not ____________________
They could not ________________________________________
Married women could not __________________________________________.
Most Americans, both men and women, believed that a woman’s place was
_______________________________________________.
Women who were active in _____________________ or other social reform movements believed they
had _____________________________________________________________.
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They began to __________________________________________.
Among these women was __________________________________.
o Born into slavery in _______________________, she was __________________, but her
words ___________________________________________.
o Truth became a powerful voice on behalf of both _______________________________
and ______________.
________________________, a Quaker, had spent years working in the
__________________________________.
o Quakers allowed women to ______________________________________________.
o Mott thus had ______________________________ and
______________________________ that most women of her day did not.
Seneca Falls Convention
In 1840, Mott traveled to _________________ to attend an ___________________________________.
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There she met another abolitionist, ___________________________________.
o Stanton was _____________________________________ with her husband, a
____________________________________.
o But when Mott and Stanton tried to attend the meeting, they were told that women
were not permitted to _____________________________________________.
o Mott and Stanton were _____________________________________________.
o They agreed on the need for a convention to ______________________________.
o They followed through with that idea in the __________________________.
 Their convention met in ___________________________________.
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It discussed the ______________, _____________, and __________________
rights of women.
 The Seneca Falls Convention attracted ______________________________.
Stanton wrote a __________________________________________.
o It was modeled on the _____________________________________________.
o It began with these words, __________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________.
o The declaration then listed _____________________________________, including
__________________________________________________________________.
o It demanded ________________________________________________________.
Stanton’s argument was the beginning of the long battle for _________________________ which
means ______________________________________________.
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However, not all of the delegates agreed when Stanton included a call for women’s suffrage in
the Declaration of Sentiments.
o Some, such as __________________________ strongly supported it.
o Others, including ________________________ feared that a call for suffrage would be
so controversial that it ____________________________________.
Still, the convention ______________________________ the demand for women’s suffrage.
New Opportunities for Women
The Seneca Falls Convention launched the __________________________________ in the United
States.
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This was ______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________.
In the years after the Seneca Falls Convention, _________________________ became a close ally of
Stanton.
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As an ____________________________, Anthony was free to
___________________________________________________.
Stanton, the mother of a growing family, more often __________________________________.
Together, they founded the ______________________________________________ in 1869.
The fight for women’s suffrage made _____________________________________.
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Yet the women’s rights movement _______________________________.
o In 1860, Stanton and Anthony convinced New York to
__________________________________________________.
o Some states revised their laws to allow _______________________________________.
The women’s rights movement focused much attention on ______________________.
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American schools emphasized _________________________________, who would grow up to
be _______________, _________________, and __________________________.
Girls seldom studied advanced subjects like _________________ and _________________.
Even before the Seneca Falls Convention, reformers worked to
___________________________________________________.
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In 1821, ___________________________started an academy in ___________________, that
became the __________________________________________.
o The Troy Female Seminary attracted the daughters of ___________ and ____________.
o The first year, __________________________.
o By 1831, the seminary had ______________________________.
____________________ began an even bolder experiment when she opened
_________________________________________ in Massachusetts, in 1837.
o The school was the first _________________________________ in the United States.
o It showed that women could learn subjects like ______________, _______________,
and __________________.
Gradually, American society came to accept that girls ___________________________ and that women
_____________________________.
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More and more schools began _______________________________ who had been trained at
one of the new colleges for women.
Some women began trying to _____________________________________________.
o ____________________________ made a career as a _______________________,
____________________, and _________________________.
 She __________________________________ at a time when it was
____________________________________.
 Fuller published an influential book entitled
________________________________________.
o Other women excelled in ____________________.
 ___________________ was admitted to _______________________________
in New York.
 She ____________________________________ in January 1849
becoming the first woman to
______________________________________________.
 The astronomer _____________________________ was the
_________________________________________________.
 She was also the first woman elected into the
_____________________________________________ in 1848.
 A ______________________________ was later named in her honor.