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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crowd while gaining significant publicity for their cause. The movement of women into the public and political spheres had been gaining in momentum and popularity since the mid-19th century. Women demanded suffrage as early as 1848. The Seneca Falls convention brought together 200 women and 40 men‚ including feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott‚ to make the claim for full citizenship. The delegates believed women to be citizens not limited in any way to their roles as wives or mothers
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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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In July of 1848 Elizabeth Stanton organized the first woman’s rights convention in Seneca Falls. At the convention she had a man by the name of Douglas MaCarthur speak showing that the African American population were in support of the woman’s rights movement. This convention was the beginning of one of the biggest movements in American history. The movement started of slow due to many contributing factors. One‚ the start of the movement was at the beginning of the civil war‚so people weren’t really
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Anti-Slavery Society and an eloquent speaker for the immediate abolition of slavery ‚ Henry Brewster Stanton. They went on to get married against Mrs. Stanton’s parents wishes. The two newly weds went on their honeymoon to the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London‚ where
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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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America was expanding in the early 1800s‚ politically‚ economically‚ and socially. Many movements occurred during this time‚ particularly from 1825 to 1850‚ aimed to better laws‚ institutions‚ and society and to spread democracy overall. Although the religious‚ penal‚ education‚ and feminist reform movements in the United States sought to expand democratic ideals‚ the temperance and abolitionist reform movements ended up limiting democracy. The religious‚ penal‚ education‚ and feminist reform movements
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This document shows how women were fighting for equal rights in not only in the workforce; but also equal rights socially as well. These women were worried about equal pay and that if women do not advance their status now they will never fill top executive jobs with larger salaries than the salaries that are being provided for them during the time. For example; "Because such restrictions mean the closing of opportunity to women whose ability would enable them to rise to executive positions‚ the
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women’s rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leader of the women’s rights movement in the 19th century. One of her most influential events was a convention held at Seneca Falls in New York. This was the first large convention held by women to speak about women’s rights. Stanton had developed a draft of the Declaration of Sentiments‚ which she read at the convention. The
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co-education to be established. A decade before the civil war broke out‚women’s rights achieved a high level of visibility after the convention at Seneca Falls.Many women became interested in this movement. Instead of working toward becoming an abolitionist‚
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