The Split History of the Women's Suffrage Movement: A Perspectives Flip Book
By Don Nardo
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Don Nardo
Noted historian and award-winning author Don Nardo has written many books for young people about American history. Nardo lives with his wife, Christine, in Massachusetts.
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The Split History of the Women's Suffrage Movement - Don Nardo
READING
CHAPTER 1
SMART, COURAGEOUS WOMEN
Early in July 1848, an ad in an issue of a small upstate New York "newspaper stated:
A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious rights of women will be held in the Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, New York, on Wednesday and Thursday, the 19th and 20th of July current; commencing at 10 a.m. During the first day the meeting will be held exclusively for women, who are earnestly invited to attend. The public generally are invited to be present on the second day.
The meeting, attended by fewer than 300 people, marked the beginning of the women’s rights movement in the United States. These early social reformers demanded civil rights for women. Chief among the rights was suffrage—the right to vote. At the time no major nation in the world allowed female suffrage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton speaks at the Seneca Falls convention.
There had been a few minor exceptions in the past. The Corsican Republic, which controlled the Mediterranean island of Corsica from 1755 to 1769, allowed women’s suffrage. Also, at least one woman in the original 13 British American colonies actually voted. Her name was Lydia Taft. Because she was wealthy and influential in the town of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, she was allowed to vote in town meetings. In addition, between the years 1776 and 1807 the state of New Jersey allowed women who owned a certain amount of property to vote.
Such examples remained odd historical exceptions to a general rule in the vast majority of societies. It held that women were second-class citizens. They could neither vote nor run for public office. The main reason was that most people in those days simply accepted what they saw as gender norms. The common belief was that women were weak, incapable of complex thought, and ruled by their emotions.
In contrast, men were generally viewed as strong, complex thinkers, and in control of their emotions. It seemed logical, therefore, that men were better suited to hold down jobs and be in charge of politics. And as members of the perceived weaker, less capable gender, women were expected to run the home, raise the children, and support their husbands’ political views and personal dreams.
EDUCATED, PASSIONATE PEOPLE
The first major, organized attempt to change the situation in the United States was spearheaded by two smart, energetic, and courageous women. One was Lucretia Mott, who as a young woman had taught school in what is now Millbrook, New York. German-born social reformer Carl Schurz met Mott when she was 61. He later described her in these words: I thought her the most beautiful old lady I had ever seen. Her features were of exquisite fineness. Not one of the wrinkles with which age had marked her face, would one have wished away. Her dark eyes beamed with intelligence.
Lucretia Mott was a social reformer who also opposed slavery.
The other early founder of the U.S. women’s movement was Elizabeth