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Answer 1

Big question:
Did men oppose the early American women’s rights movement?

Answer 2

Document One
James Gordon Bennett, editor of New York Herald, wrote in response to the 1850 Women’s Rights Convention.

The new dispensation of Lucretia Mott and the philosophers, proposes:

To dispense with Christianity and the Bible. After an experiment of nineteen centuries, they declare the system to be a humbug.
To abolish the existing political and social system of society as part of the false machinery of the age.
To put all races, sexes and colors upon a footing of perfect equality. The convention having proved by phrenology and biology that, the sexes are equal in point of intellect, and that color is a mere difference of complexion, it is proposed to abolish the only distinction of sex by a universal adoption of breeches. . . .
Old things are to be done away with, and all things are to become new. Seward is to be sustained, and [President Millard] Fillmore is only to be tolerated till the advent of the new dispensation, when Lucretia Mott, Abby Kelly, Douglas, Greeley and Sojourner Truth are to rule the roast. Then, and not till then, shall we realise the jubilee of the Devil and his angels.
Short-Answer Questions

What type of list does Bennett make here?
To what does Bennett compare Lucretia Mott and other defenders of women’s rights?

Answer 3

Document Two
Henry H. Amringe commented in reaction to the 1850 Women’s Rights Convention.

Women in Europe may fill the throne, as reigning Monarchs. Shall they who are thought worthy of the highest station, in hereditary monarchies, be deemed unworthy of election to office, by the suffrages of a free people? If women, placed in the administration of great and vast national affairs, by the mere accident of birth, have acted wisely, much more might we expect not wisdom only, but integrity in the government of women, selected by free citizens, with a view to mental and moral fitness.
Short-Answer Questions

Where did Henry Amringe make these comments?
What argument does Amringe give to support his views?

Answer 4

Document Three
Lucius Alonzo Hines commented in reaction to the Women’s Rights Convention, 1850.

"...let me remark, that it is my deliberate opinion that any act wrong in woman is equally wrong in man, — that if it be right for man to fight, it is also right for woman to fight, if it be right for man to tolerate rowdyism at the polls, in Congress, in the coffee-house, it is right for woman to mingle in it and contribute her share to this kind of righteousness. Woman has often assisted in the defence of her country, and no laws of disfranchisement have been able to diminish the ardor of her patriotism, or her well known courage in the hour of danger."
Short-Answer Questions

Does Hines believe women and men are equal?
How do you know?

Answer 5

Document Four
Review the image.

Short-Answer Questions

What are the women doing in this image?
Does the artist seem to support women’s rights or not?

Answer 6

Document Five
Review the image.

Short-Answer Questions

Who appears in the center of this postcard?
From the quote, what would you say Phillips thought about women’s rights?


The moment you give women power (the ballot); that moment men will see to it that she has the way cleared for her.- Wendell Phillips

Answer 7

Document Six
Justice Bradley of the U.S. Supreme Court wrote this comment. It appears in the case summary for Bradwell v. Illinois, 1872.

"It is true that many women are unmarried and not affected by any of the duties, complications, and incapacities arising out of the married state, but these are exceptions to the general rule. The paramount destiny

and mission of woman are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator. And the rules of civil society must be adapted to the general constitution of things, and cannot be based upon exceptional cases."
Short-Answer Questions

What does Justice Bradley say is the most important job of women?
Does Justice Bradley believe the laws support women having political rights? How do you know?

Answer 8

Part B
Historical Context: The women’s rights movement had roots in early social reform efforts of the 1800s. Women led many of those efforts. However, they found that there were certain things they could not do because of tradition. One example was public speaking in front of men and women. Many women felt frustrated by these limits. They chose to focus their efforts on women’s rights instead. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped organize the first Women’s Rights Convention in 1850.

Answer 9

https://newhumanist.org.uk/1816

Answer 10

To your first question yes, men were against this movement.