Womens Reform
By: Robert, Alexis, Gabby, Matthew
Problem
- Couldn't vote
- Limited career choices
- Less education
- Had to be "Lady Like"
- Considered weaker and inferior to men
- Shocking and scandalous for a women to give a speech especially in front of men and women and is often attack for it
- Married women do not have property rights can not enter into contracts or cannot sign legal documents or have control in her wages or her children
Solutions
- Married Women's Property Act
- 19th Amendment
- More jobs available
- Equal pay act
Susan B Anthony
The preamble of the Federal Constitution says:
"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
elective franchise [vote]. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation
of which she had no voice.”
Lucretia Mott
Rating
Outcome
Work Cited
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