HIST 343 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Seneca Falls Convention, Timothy Eaton, Massey Family
21 Oct 2016
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Protestant population: women get vote sooner than catholic countries. Important in understanding when women get the vote. Individuals entitled to particip in civil life b/o holding property. If own property have more at stake in society than someone who do es not hold land. Custom v. legal status that"s why they are excluded (women) Cases of women in qc voting before 1849: widows owned property, why excluded? (1849) Us 1848: seneca falls convention (public source of anxiety) Begin 1840s, 50s women begin to petition prov. Vote is not only way to participate in politics: woman active in using petitions, most opinions about alcohol, way we understand suffrage in cda, result of bna act, and early ppl working on. Studies as homeopathic doctor (branch of medicine that still exists today: w form of alt. medicine. Real orientation is towards getting women the vote.
