feminists of a sort and fought for the right to vote and the ability to get a job and earn a wage‚ as any man would. Equality and political rights were important to many women‚ such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott; Mott is widely known as the mother of feminism. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the Seneca Falls Convention‚ a two day long women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls‚ New
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household‚ birthing and minding the children‚ and a supportive role to the man of the house. This role changed little over time until 1848 when the women’s rights movement started at the Seneca Falls Convention. It was at the convention when Elizabeth Cady Stanton gave a Declaration of Sentiments; she demanded equal rights including the right to vote for women. “Signed by 68 women and 32 men‚ it was a powerful symbol and the beginning of a long struggle for legal‚ professional‚ educational‚ and voting
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Fighting for Equal Rights Jane Addams‚ Harriet Tubman‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ and Rachel Carson were four American women who advocated for social change. Their courage‚ intelligence‚ strength and leadership made a positive difference in the lives of many people. These women were pioneers in their times. They either helped to found‚ or lent their voices to‚ various social movements‚ policies‚ and causes that evolved during their lifetimes and proved successful in helping many oppressed people.
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Justice Simonetti APUSH The Suffrage Movement and New Feminism February 27‚ 2013 Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1920) | * Delivered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton to an audience of about 200 women and 40 men * Resolutions * Laws that conflict with the happiness of a women are invalid * Laws that prevent a women from occupying a station are invalid * A woman is a man’s equal as dictated by god * Women should know the laws that restrain them
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powerful women today. During the mid 1800’s and 19th century‚ feminism had a large effect on the female’s role in society and in everyday life. The women decided that enough was enough and needed to make a change for every woman in the world. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth had fought for their women rights and changed the world’s perspective on women‚ and felt that this was enough‚ things needed to change for the better. Women today have the same rights as man do and without the rights for
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They were bigger now than they had ever been before. However‚ they were sticking to their original ideas from the first convention and still aiming for their full and absolute rights. Stanton traveled the country alongside other important women to the cause such as Susan B. Anthony‚ Lucy Stone‚ and Sojourner Truth exhorting‚ preparing‚ and establishing the future of the movement. As time and the movement progressed‚ it came to be that
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To do this‚ Stanton calls upon two hugely influential pieces of literature‚ and rewrites them from a feminist eye to create the Woman’s Bible and the Declaration of Sentiments. In the Woman’s Bible‚ Stanton starts off by explaining how the Bible has disparaged and misrepresented women. Perhaps the most relevant‚ is the Bible’s teaching that “...woman brought sin and death into the world” (Stanton Bible 7). With religion being held in such high regard‚ women
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way it is now. The Women’s Rights Movement begins its task on July 13th‚ 1848‚ where a lady named Elizabeth Cady Stanton decided enough was enough‚ and she started the fight for her rights as well asall women’s rights. Within the next week of her decision she held a convention in Seneca Falls called‚ "A convention to discuss the social‚ civil‚ and religious condition and rights of woman". Stanton created a list to present called "Declaration of Sentiments" which stated areas in life where women
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US History 7.1 Industry and Transportation The Transportation Revolution Improving the Roads Turnpike Roads - users had to pay a toll only a few made a profit‚ didn’t do the intended purpose National Road - only decent road‚ made of crushed rock The Steamboat Goes Commercial main advance in transportation made it easier and faster to travel Canals Boom canals made it easier to transport between farms and cities Erie Canal - best known canal of the era Railroads Further Ease Horses
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Gender roles have changed immensely in the United States throughout the last century‚ especially within society. Men and women were viewed differently back in the 1900s as two separate genders and having two separate roles to live by as compared to men and women in the 21st century. Women in the early 1900s were expected to stay home to cater for her husband’s needs while they went to work‚ or in most homes‚ were away to serve at war. Men had all the privileges women could not have or do. Women
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