American History on the Web: Women Organizing

Read about the Declaration of Sentiments and the Resolutions at http://www.closeup.org/sentimnt.htm.

1		What were the major problems with women's position in 19th-century America, according to leaders at the Seneca Falls convention?
2		Describe their plans for change?
3		How can you connect the first American women's rights movement to both the Revolutionary War and the abolition of slavery? What do these movements say about the uniformity of American values across lines of gender, race, and class?