Colonial America Era (1600-1750) 1. Legal Status: a. Women had limited legal rights. They couldn’t vote‚ be jurors‚ or hold political offices. b. If single or widowed‚ women could not own property. As soon as they were married any property they would have received would become their husbands. c. If a woman was an indentured servant‚ they could not be married until their time of service had passed. 2. The Chesapeake Area: a. Women in the Chesapeake Bay were treated kinder then in other regions
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time period began the women’s suffrage movement‚ in which women tried to gain voting rights for women in the United States. An article from History.com says that‚ “In 1848‚ a group of abolitionist activists–mostly women‚ but some men–gathered in Seneca Falls‚ New York to discuss the problem of women’s rights. (They were invited there by the reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.) Most of the delegates agreed: American women were autonomous individuals who deserved their own political identities”
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birth and work as slaves in the house for the men. In the book Negotiating Difference – Cultural Case Studies for Composition‚ there are two articles against the women rights activities. One of the articles called The Woman’s Rights Convention: The Last Act of Drama (September 12‚ 1852) from New York Herald‚ it describes ideas of woman’s rights activists in some ridiculous ways to imply their activities were unnecessary and unworthy to be listened to. “…mannish women‚ like hens that crow;
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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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American Reform Movements From 1790 to 1860 reforms emerged in the United States in attempt to create a more advanced society. Many of the movements that were attempted failed due to either entrenched social conservatism or weaknesses in the movements themselves. New religions started to emerge based on Christianity‚ but shaped to their preferences. Along with new religions were Utopias that were part of cooperative‚ communistic‚ or “communitarian” nature. The temperance movement started to
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people to go around and explore new things and places. The twenties had a major impact on women’s social status. Through time women have been oppressed by man and looked at to be inferior to them. That all changed with the start of the Seneca Falls Convention in the mid 1800. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wanted women to begin to take a stand for themselves and to fight for equality among the men. This sparked many future protest for womens rights. Their main goal was for womens suffrage giving them the
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reform. So many women were involved in the Second Great Awakening which made Women’s Rights a great part of the grassroots movements. The women were successful in women’s right reform. Many women fought for women’s property rights. At the Seneca Falls convention women insisted that they get enfranchisement (more political privilages) by putting foward their "Declaration of Rights Sentiments." Theodore Weld and James Birney were very big supporters for abolition of slavery. Theodore and James were
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a 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
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married women was an ongoing issue for the early women’s rights movement. If women could not enter into contracts‚ it was unlikely that they could ever win such a right as suffrage. The first major struggle for women’s rights after the Seneca Falls convention was petitioning for married women’s property rights. The fight against unfair treatment under the law became a rallying point for Stanton and Anthony. Writing was a popular form of expression for women and was used as tools of social change--in
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Susan B. Anthony‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Ida B. Wells‚ and Alice Paul all are household names‚ and the former has secured her place on the American silver dollar. Anthony is known for her role in the foundation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association‚ or NAWSA‚ an organization that she eventually became the second president of. Born in 1820‚ she grew up in a Quaker family‚ her ideals grounded in the belief that women‚ in all aspects‚ should be equal to men. In 1853‚ she joined a campaign
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