be Tribulations The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was one of America’s most utilizing tools for advocating women’s rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the brave author and advocate of this amazing document set before the government apposing legitimate rights for all women across the U.S. With the help of other women who were “fed up‚” Elizabeth Stanton‚ stood and presented the first ever‚ unlawful acts against‚ that were posed upon woman in the 18th century and every year before that.
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remain subservient to their fathers and husbands. The only occupations they were allowed to take part in were as domestic servants‚ or laborers in factories and mills. The National American Women Suffrage Association was founded in 1890 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This association focused on women equality‚ they advocated for easier divorce procedures and an end to discrimination
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is usually always revolved around men‚ and not many mention about the women who have helped in creating history. Through the early modern era women showed progress in making the United States a better place. With writers and activists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Christine de Pizan and Virginia Woolf‚ the contributions from these individuals they influenced others with bettering our country with different movements that have changed the view of what we see today and what we could have seen if these
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founding documents‚ to our nation’s beliefs supporting their ideas. Similarly‚ many influential writers for women’s rights followed in the way of abolitionist‚ who struggled for many years to overturn slavery. Writers such as‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Margaret Sanger‚ and Sojourner Truth‚ spoke out in protest against unequal treatment against women. For much of American history‚ women were not considered equal to men and were denied equality in many areas of life. Most women had no legal
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overtime causing today’s beliefs to be different. By comparing and contrasting the perspectives of Frederick Douglass‚ who in his speech “What to the Slave if the Fourth of July?” presents his viewpoint on the need to end the act of slavery‚ and Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ who in her speech from Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention argues the need for equality between men and women‚ it is evident that Americans value this belief and hope for a positive future by creating freedom
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Anti-Slavery convention‚ the realization came that they‚ too‚ were functioning in society without the complete freedom afforded to their male counterparts. Some of the women responsible for the revolution of the 1800’s included Lucretia Mott‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Frances Wright and Susan B. Anthony. Each had a certain plank in the platform of women’s rights that they wished to promote. The American Anti-Slavery Society began the fight to abolish slavery. It was headed by a woman named Lucretia Mott
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grime‚ and they could not breathe properly or fully because of the extreme tightness called for by the fashion of having a “wasp waist”. Elizabeth Cady Stanton complained‚ “why ‘the drapery’ is quite too much -- one might as well work with a ball and chain. Is being born a woman so criminal an offense‚ that we must be doomed to this everlasting bondage? (Stanton‚ "Our Costume").” And Theodosia Gilbert wrote that these costumes robbed women of the natural “poetry of motion” and grace which their bodies
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From then on‚ those women who were mistreated took on an idea of holding a women’s convention that discussed the mistreatments of women. During the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton created the Declaration of Sentiments which was a document that was much similar to the Declaration of Independence but in which discussed about the exercising rights of the women. As a result of the convention‚ over one hundred men and women
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In the time of 1825-1850‚ United States officials and activists sought to expand the democratic ideals in which the country was founded. Activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton as well as many other women pushed for the right to vote‚ stating that both men and women were created equal‚ and women should be given the right to vote‚ for it was the democratic action to take. Other activists began to create democratic reforms as well‚ fighting to reinforce the ideals the nation so actively prides itself
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from man’s idea of who they should be. The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments‚ written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ would be the key to unlock those chains that had confined women for so long. The July 19th and 20th Seneca Falls convention would be the documented beginning of the struggle for women’s rights. Although there were many abolitionists and supporters of the women’s rights movement‚ Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott came to be remembered as the most significant. In 1840 they first met
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