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Chronological Reasoning and Causation

Women's Education in the Early 1800s

  1. Load “Catalogue of the Litchfield Female School,” 1825 in Main Image Viewer
  2. Load Andromache Weeping over the Ashes of Hector in Main Image Viewer

Suggested Teaching Instructions

Learning Standards: 
11.3 EXPANSION, NATIONALISM, AND SECTIONALISM (1800 – 1865): As the nation expanded, growing sectional tensions, especially over slavery, resulted in political and constitutional crises that culminated in the Civil War. (Standards: 1, 3, 4, 5; Themes: TCC, GEO, GOV, ECO, TECH)
11.3b Different perspectives concerning constitutional, political, economic, and social issues contributed to the growth of sectionalism.
Students will examine the emergence of the women’s rights movement out of the abolitionist movement, including the role of the Grimké sisters, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and evaluate the demands made at the Seneca Falls Convention (1848).