Study Questions
1. What disadvantages as women did persons like Charlotte Woodward and Elizabeth Cady Stanton experience in the early 1800s?
2. Why do you think Stanton was dissatisfied with her lot as a woman in 1848? Why could she not be content to be a wife and a mother?
3. In what ways did Stanton assert her independence prior to the Seneca Falls Convention?
4. Why were Quaker women better prepared to assert themselves in public gatherings than non-Quaker women?
5. What did men in the 1840s think about women’s rights? In what ways did men support and oppose the movement—especially at Seneca Falls?
6. What specific grievances were aired at Seneca Falls, and what solutions were offered?
7. Why were many participants at the convention opposed to the woman suffrage proposal?
8. Describe the press reaction to the convention and explain why it was generally so hostile. How did opponents of women’s rights justify their position?
1. What disadvantages as women did persons like Charlotte Woodward and Elizabeth Cady Stanton experience in the early 1800s?
2. Why do you think Stanton was dissatisfied with her lot as a woman in 1848? Why could she not be content to be a wife and a mother?
3. In what ways did Stanton assert her independence prior to the Seneca Falls Convention?
4. Why were Quaker women better prepared to assert themselves in public gatherings than non-Quaker women?
5. What did men in the 1840s think about women’s rights? In what ways did men support and oppose the movement—especially at Seneca Falls?
6. What specific grievances were aired at Seneca Falls, and what solutions were offered?
7. Why were many participants at the convention opposed to the woman suffrage proposal?
8. Describe the press reaction to the convention and explain why it was generally so hostile. How did opponents of women’s rights justify their position?