Women’s Suffrage Movement
California Content Standard 8.6.6
By the end of the lesson, I will be able to…
Examine the women’s suffrage movement (e.g., biographies,
writings, and speeches of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret
Fuller, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony)
As evidenced by…
Taking notes and a quiz.
Essential Question
• What was the women’s suffrage movement and who were the
key players?
Women’s Movement
• Social changes led to the rise of the women’s movement.
• Women took advantage of better educational opportunities.
• Many women took an active part in reform and abolition
efforts.
Women’s Movement
• Many activists began to find it unacceptable that women were
not allowed to vote, and often they were not even allowed to
control their own property.
• Women found that they had to defend their right to speak in
public, especially when the audience included men.
• Women, however, began to speak out.
Margaret Fuller
• In 1845 a woman named Margaret Fuller wrote a book in
which she said that women had the right to choose their own
paths in life.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia
Mott
• In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized
the Seneca Falls Convention.
• It was the first organized public meeting about women’s rights in
the United States.
• The organizers wrote a Declaration of Sentiments that detailed
their beliefs about social injustice toward women.
Susan B. Anthony
• Susan B. Anthony was another important female suffragette.
• She argued that women and men should receive equal pay for
equal work.
• She also believed that women should be allowed to enter
traditionally male professions such as religion and law.