American Dream In The 1840's

The american dream is the ideal of people making goals and dreams that they want to accomplish in their life. Some people accomplish the dreams and goals they make for themselves.The american dream has changed throughout history.In the 1840’s there were many feminist fighting for womens rights. Some feminist are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Hillary Clinton. All three of these feminist have accomplished their american dream. Stanton and Anthony fought for gender equality. Hillary clinton wanted to be successful in politics,she also fought for women to be equal to men. The American dream back in history was the thought of people having a better life. A country was created for people to be able to be free and live a life they
As elizabeth got older she became a feminist. In 1840 she got married to a man named Henry Brewster Stanton. For their honeymoon they went to the world's anti-slavery contention that was held in London.They refused to give women delegates a seat . “ The time had come, Stanton argued, for women's wrongs to be laid before the public, and women themselves must shoulder the responsibility. Before the afternoon was out, the women decided on a call for a convention "to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman” After being refused a seat she decided to start the first woman's rights conventions. “Stanton, making the argument that women had a natural right to equality, in all spheres. The ninth resolution held forth the duty of women to secure for themselves the right to vote.” Elizabeth Stanton drafted resolutions that argued about gender equality. One of the resolutions argued that women had a duty to secure the right to vote for themselves. “Just what i wanted, “ Stanton exclaimed when she saw that James Gordon bennett, motivated by the derision printed the entire declaration of sentiments in the New York Herald, “Imagine the publicity given to our ideas by thus appearing in a widely circulated sheet like the
Susan was born into a reform- minded quaker family. After completing her education she taught in several schools in New York, and became the head of the female department of the canajoharie academy in 1846.Anthony met Elizabeth Stanton three years after the first women's rights convention. Anthony was denied to speak at a sons of temperance meeting in 1852. Anthony and other females founded the women's state temperance society. When anthony attended her first women's rights convention that same year she became committed to women's rights. “ Hailed as “the napoleon of women’s rights movement,” susan brownell anthony led the fight for women's suffrage for more than fifty 50 years, bringing to the cause superb organizational abilities, boundless energy, and single minded determination.” Anthony was determined in women's rights she fought for more than fifty years. “She was the chief organizer of a series of state and national woman's rights conventions held in New york state in the years before the civil war.” Susan organized many conventions to help women get rights be the war began. “She and stanton also embarked on a county-by-county petition campaign to lobby the new york legislature for an improved married women’s property law, which was finally passed in 1860. In addition, anthony served as a state agent for the american anti-slavery society and worked to secure equal