[SOLUTION] Woman’s History

Woman’s History Project 2: Why Did Some Men Support the Women’s Rights Movement in the 1850s, and How Did Their Ideas Compare to those of Women in the Movement?In 1840, at a major antislavery convention in London, American women delegates were excluded and prohibited from addressing the convention. American abolitionists Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison showed their solidarity with the women by sitting with them when they were banished to the gallery. This lesson explores links between the abolition and woman’s rights movements as well as looking at why some men supported the antebellum woman’s rights movement. Directions: Answer the questions in each of the four parts of this written assignment. Answer the questions in the first three parts , and write an essay of 1,250 to 1,500 words in part 4.Part 1:  Answer the three following questions after reading “William Lloyd Garrison at the Woman’s Rights Convention (1853) Document #9.1) How does Garrison equate the tyranny of men over women with the tyranny of slavery?2) What does Garrison mean when he declares he is a “HUMAN RIGHTS MAN?”3) Why does Garrison argue that men and women should have equal rights?Part 2:  Answer the three following questions after reading Frederick Douglass, “Why I Became a Woman’s Rights Man” (1881) Document #14.1) How does Douglass connect the antislavery and woman’s rights movements?2) Why does Douglass argue that the government would be better if women were enfranchised?3) What does he say the vote would do for women as well as for African Americans?Part 3:  Compare and contrast the views of Garrison and Douglass in the documents you have read in Parts 1 and 2. After doing these readings, why do you think some men supported women’s rights before the Civil War?Part 4: Write an essay of 1,250 to 1,500 words answering the following question: How did the Antislavery Movement contribute to the emergence of the Woman’s Rights Movement? In addition to the Garrison and Douglas texts, you should also draw on the documents  – “Letter from Daniel O’Connell to Lucretia Mott,” (1840) Document #1; “The First and Closing Paragraphs of Mrs. Stanton’s Address Delivered at Seneca Falls, NY, July 19,20, 1848” Document #3; and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Letter to the Editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard , 26 December 1865. “This Is the Negro’s Hour,” (1865) Document #19. Before composing your essay be sure to read ALL of the documents in this project.

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