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    of abolition were main inspirations. Women’s rights movements were becoming more common. More women than ever were coming together to protest. The Seneca Falls Convention was the first organized women’s rights movement. When women went to other conventions they were excluded‚ this convention was about women and for women. These conventions would eventually persuade congress to pass a law allowing women to vote in the 1900’s. Education movements were also a common thing among minorities. Young Americans

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    friend Susan B. Anthony. The Other more talks about the actual Meeting. The Convention was in upstate New York. It also lasted 3 Days. The people at the convention talk about the Declaration of Sentiment which was strongly based off the Declaration of Independence. They also had 12 resolutions to resolve which they did except The ninth. The ninth one was the one to vote some thought that just coming to the convention to vote was crazy but Anthony said that’s the first step to getting rights.

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    women’s rights convention‚ which was held in Seneca Falls‚ New York. It was not until over 70 yeas later that women were finally given the right to vote when the 19th amendment was completely ratified in 1920. The Seneca Falls convention was called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott out of their anger with male abolitionists and the patriarchal system that they represented. In 1840‚ when Stanton and Mott attended the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention‚ the predominately male convention refused to

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    to college educate each of their children. Elizabeth Stanton started lecturing and touring to earn money for the educational expenses. Anthony kept busy writing her own arguments for suffrage and making (some unwanted) appearances at rallies and conventions. Thus‚ Anthony became synonymous with the women’s movement post-amendments. By the early 1880s‚ Stanton weary of lecturing returned home to begin work on another book. She toiled so fervently that her daughter whisked Elizabeth away to Europe after

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    Group 6 Cedric Wingate Christina Nicolas Isaac Lampkin Lacee Rogers Diamond Robinson AMH 4573-001 Bishop Richard Henry Boyd During a one time in history many racial conflicts have occurred in the Baptist Church. Many churches of Baptist origin have always been involved controversial debates‚ especially between the black churchgoers. Many black churchgoers have looked at the church as a sanctuary for religion‚ but besides religion this is a place where many business opportunities begin

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    "The grandest and greatest reform of all time‚” Susan B. Anthony Stated proudly at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.The full importance of the revolutionary convention that changed the perceptions of women’s history. The book covers 50 years of women’s activism‚ from 1840-1890‚ focusing on four key figures in that specific period like Lucretia Mott‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Lucy Stone‚ and Susan B. Anthony. Just like the title states‚ McMillen tells the background stories from where they came from

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    religion. “ As time passed‚ Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London and when the conference refused to seat them and other women delegates from America because of their sex‚ Stanton and Mott called a convention to address the condition of women‚ called The Seneca Falls Convention. This convention began her public career. Stanton wrote “articles for the press‚ letters to other conventions” and even gave speeches. This group of women grew immensely until the time had

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    share all of the same rights as men‚ including the right to vote. It was not until 1848 that the movement for women’s rights launched on a national level. Abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) and Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) organized a convention in Seneca Falls‚ New York to demand for the right to vote. This action would later become a centerpiece of the women’s rights movement. Stanton and Mott‚ along with Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) and other activists‚ formed organizations that raised

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    still denied the right to vote. The Women’s suffrage Movement took several years to make its way through and successfully in 1920 women won voting rights. It first began with the very first women’s rights convention in the United states at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Fall‚ New York‚ 1848. The convention was organized by Elizabeth

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    In 1948 at the Seneca Falls Convention women demanded that their rights as rights bearing citizens be acknowledged and that they be respected. In a message delivered at the Convention by Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Stanton told the convention members that the purpose of the assemblage was to protest women being governed without their permission‚ and she also stated that women have a right

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