Lesson
A Movement Arises (1800-1860)
Founding Principles
Materials
- Background Essay: A Movement Arises (1800–1860)
- Handout A: Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions: The Seneca Falls Convention
- Handout B: Two Declarations
- Handout C: Document Analysis Jigsaw
- Handout D: Voices in the Women’s Movement
- Appendix A: Amending the Constitution
- Appendix B: Timeline and Quotes
- Appendix C: Timeline Cards
- Appendix G: A Pathway for Change
- Answer Key
Lesson Components
Lesson plan
Key Terms
- Cult of Domesticity
- elective franchise
- republican
More Information
FOR FURTHER READING
- Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. (Boston, 1845) Bedford/St. Martin’s (2002)
- Flexner, Eleanor and Ellen Fitzpatrick, Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States, Belknap Press (1996)
- Lerner, Gerda. The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina, The University of North Carolina Press; Revised and Expanded edition (2004)
- McMillen, Sally. Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement (2009)
- Sklar, Kathryn Kish. Bedford Reader Women’s Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870, New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s (2000)
- The Rights of Women, Married Women’s Property Act of New York 1848-1849, Law Library of Congress
Standards
Advanced Placement
- National
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