began to complain about their status (Tindall & Shi‚ 2010). The organized movement for women ’s rights began in 1848‚ when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott invited a group of abolitionist activists (mostly women‚ but some men) to a convention in Seneca Falls‚ New York to discuss the issue of women ’s rights. The
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The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was the first spark to women’s rights movements in Antebellum America. Without this meeting‚ life for women today could be entirely different. Rights that seem obligatory to women today‚ like being able to vote‚ and occupational diversity for women. Women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Coffin Mott helped to kickstart the innovative ideas produced before and through the convention. The Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls was the site of the
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sarin. Even before these gases were used in war‚ they created a special kind of fear and moral revulsion. The general and traditional definition of a chemical weapon is a toxic chemical contained in a delivery system‚ such as a bomb or shell. The Convention defines chemical weapons much more generally. The term chemical weapon is applied to any toxic chemical or its precursor that can cause death‚ injury‚ temporary incapacitation or sensory irritation through its chemical action. Munitions or other
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made the first women rights convention organized by women in Western World. That’s where the name came from: Seneca Falls Convention. Especially Elizabeth Stanton really deserved not to be forgotten because of her Declaration of Sentiments - the very first document‚ signed by 68 women and 32 men that were attending the first convention. It was a beginning of the storm that women wanted to cause. In the 1850 the members of the Anti-Slavery Society created a national convention for the formal consideration
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with Susan B. Anthony. In 1848‚ a noteworthy get together of women accumulated in her home of Seneca Falls‚ New York. Stanton coordinated the “Seneca Falls Convention’ with Lucretia Mott‚ a Quaker reformer and abolitionist‚ who had also been barred from the World Anti-Slavery Convention that took place eight years prior in London; this convention addressed the status of American women who felt distressed‚
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Throughout history there have been many reform movements that have changed the country which they took place in. During the first half of the nineteenth century the reform movements in America brought lasting change by causing the citizens of America to rethink their views on many important issues brought about by the economic and social disruptions of the market revolutions. First of all‚ the Temperance Movement helped to make a lasting change on the dangerous amounts of alcohol that the average
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assembled the first convention for women’s rights in Seneca Falls (841). Stanton was the first female to make a crusade for women along with Lucretia Mott who also fought for the same cause. The convention called for there to be an inclusion of women in the Declaration of Independence. The reason they were pursing the issue was because they were done seeing women “without representation in the halls of legislation” (841). Stanton‚ Mott and Hooker were influential in leading the convention to the attention
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political movement-- many women were arrested and jailed-- in 1860 states gave women rights of ownership‚ but many reforms (right to vote) weren’t achieved. Lucretia mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton-- organized Seneca Falls Convention-- wrote Declaration of Sentiments for Convention. Susan B. Anthony-- had organized skills that further helped the movement. Led campaign for equal pay for equal work‚ allowing women to enter traditional professions‚ and for changing laws regarding women’s property. Organized
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towards women’s suffrage began in 1840 when Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton went to London to attend a World Anti-Slavery Society Convention. The were barred from attending and told to sit in a curtained enclosure with other women attendees if they wished to meet. This incident inspired Mott and Stanton to organize the First Women’s Rights Convention which was held in Seneca Falls‚ New York‚ in 1848. Three hundred women and some men came. The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions‚ which
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During the first half of the 19th century‚ women’s roles in society evolved in the areas of occupational‚ moral‚ and social reform. Through efforts such as factory movements‚ social reform‚ and women’s rights‚ their aims were realized and foundations for further reform were established. The occupational standings of women evolved in the first half of the nineteenth century. A new system of recruitment‚ the Lowell-Waltham system‚ emerged in Massachusetts. This new factory system brought in young
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