And they wanted the tax laws rewritten. Women, too, began to organize and agitate for equal rights. Here they sought to break free from the domestic ideal that held the home as a hallowed place, and dictated the role of mothers and daughters as the keepers of virtue and morality. Some women emerged from that private moral sphere into the public, political realm. A women's rights convention, held at Seneca Falls in July 1848, was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
Women begin to fight for changes in laws regarding property, marriage.
They want educational and professional opportunities, and they especially want the right to vote. Whatever is right for a man to do is right for a woman. They spoke out publicly, and they demanded that sinners reform themselves. And like all moral and social reformers, they were driven by a religious commitment to the moral government of God and to individual salvation. Site Map Other Programs 1.