The Wenz Academy

Mary Wollstonecraft
(feminist of the Enlightenment Era)

5.1 B. SIO
Explain how the Enlightenment affected societies over time.

The women's movement had its roots in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

Enlightenment ideas & religious ideals influenced various reform movements. These reform movements contributed to the expansion of rights, as seen in expanded suffrage, the abolition of slavery, & the end of serfdom. Demands for women’s suffrage & an emergent feminism challenged political & gender hierarchies. Such demands usually in the form of writing such as; Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Olympe de Gouges’s Declaration of the Rights of Woman & of the Female Citizen; & the Seneca Falls Conference (1848) which was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott.

Key Words:

Abolish
Feminism

Zionism
Socialism

The Fabian Society
Seneca Falls Convention

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5.1 B. SIOSKILL: Identify main claim (Rousseau + Beccaria)

Skills:

*Identify the main claim of text

What is Nationalism?

Nationalism is loyalty and devotion to a nation. Nationalist movements are political struggles by a group for independent statehood (having a country of their own) or autonomy (self-government over one’s people) within a nation or empire.
A nation can be a country; or a large group of people united by common ancestry, history, or culture that may not control their own political system or live scattered across multiple countries.

VIDEO: What is Nationalism? (11:31 min)

The Effects of the Enlightenment

Enlightenment Inspires the Struggle for Women's Rights

Women organized & fought for increased social & political rights. Early feminists focused on expanding voting rights & women’s right to run for elected office to women. By the 1940s, most Western women had gained the vote.

VIDEO: What You Need to Know About Women’s Suffrage (5 min)

Significant Women & Events in the Women's Suffrage Movement

The Seneca Falls Convention 1848
It was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in the town of Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848.

VIDEO: What Happened at the Seneca Falls Convention? (4 min)

Reactions to the Women's Rights Movement

Significant opposition developed to the women’s suffrage movement, especially as women became more assertive in their demands.

VIDEO: What You Need to Know About Women’s Suffrage

The Enlightenment Inspires Anti-Slavery Movement

Movements for the abolition of slavery organized & placed pressure on political leaders to end the slave trade. Once that goal was accomplished, they worked to outlaw slave labor. Abolitionism successfully ended the transatlantic slave trade by the end of the 1800s.