The Women's Rights Movement

The role of women in every society became important since the United States had declared themselves as an independent country. That was the beginning point that made women were more important until one group of women made a demand for their rights and others’ in which brought about a significant movement. The Women’s Rights movement was created by the group of middle-class women who decided to wrap this movement with republican ideas of home and motherhood before the Civil War erupted in the United States. The main purpose of Women’s Rights was to make them have a greater social role and reform a political culture. Actually, there was a few women who tried to set up their groups and cried out for their rights in which involved with an American temperance and moral, within their societies. During the 1830s, American people had experienced drinking heavily that led a new organization, which called itself as the American Temperance Union, to propel a strictly drinking law. In 1837, there was a new law, often called the Panic of 1837, for giving support American …show more content…
Anthony made a decision to join those two reformers in 1851. She began “her reform career in the temperance” by establishing the Women’s State Temperance Society in New York City, “moral reform, and antislavery movement in 1852. She encouraged and trained other women to dare of speaking “before legislatures,” lobbying “for the right to bring suit in courts,” retaining “all property they brought into marriage if the union dissolved,” and keeping “their own wages when they worked” (Gillon, pg.413). She also taught other women to seek the custody of children after they lost their husbands and insisted that those women had the rights to achieve their higher education and seminaries. For example, “[w]omen in some northern states were guaranteed protection of family property on the death of a husband” (Gillon,

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