they did. In the 1820s‚ Charles G. Finney‚ a Presbyterian minister‚ led the Second Great Awakening‚ or the religious revival. Finney preached that harlots‚ drunkards‚ and infidels could be saved through hard work and a steadfast faith in God (Document B). The religious revival was brought on to fight against deism. Finney pushed forth the creation of city churches‚ where everyone could come together to improve society. The religious reform movement expanded democratic ideals by telling people that they
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Primary Source Essay Assignment In my point of view‚ history portrays the past. While reading a American history book‚ people would only focus on the essential events that trigger their emotions; however‚ they should recognize the American history are dominated by three elements- race‚ class‚ and gender. In the rest of the assignment‚ I would use several primary sources documents to analyze how gender had made a big impact in the American history. It would signify the hardships that women endured
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P.S./I.S. 178Q Amy Abramov 802/8H 2/24/14 Elizabeth Cady Stanton There are many people that have contributed to what is now known as America. This place filled with opportunities‚ dreams‚ freedom and equality would have never been without the courageous people of the past. The souls
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to fight for their suffrage through the women’s right movement. The most important woman who worked tirelessly for women’s right was Susan B Anthony. Anthony‚ along with her friend‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ started to strive for women’s voting rights. In 1848‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton showed her opinion about women’s suffrage through the Seneca Falls Declaration‚
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Social reform is a movement that seeks to change the social and political views of discounted groups. Social reform movements involve the discounted groups and activists in an effort to change political policy while bringing public awareness to the issue through protests‚ media‚ amended legislature‚ etc. The social reform movements from 1820-1860 were characterized by unyielding perfectionism‚ impatience with compromise‚ and distrust with established social institutions. These qualities explain the
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Did you know Susan B. Anthony made a huge difference on women’s rights but did not live to see the change that she had made? Many women get jobs that men have and usually work just as hard‚ or harder to achieve their dreams. America´s gift to my generation is women’s rights and empowerment. Women get a lot of opportunities in the working field but are still cut short of equal pay in certain jobs. Women have many opportunities for colleges and jobs. Now‚ in the United States‚ more than two
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Muckrakers The term “muckraker” was originally coined in a speech in 1906 accredited to President Theodore Roosevelt. It was alluding to the man with the Muck-Rake in Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Process. The Man with the Muck rake seeks material advances by raking filth. Roosevelt defined this term as "one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders". Muckrakers in the Progressive Era‚ a time from 1820 until 1920 when America quickly industrialized
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Women should be allowed to vote. Susan B. Anthony is telling the state that excluding women from voting is wrong. The Woman’s right to the Suffrage speech by Susan B. Anthony was most compelling because she used good evidence and good diction. The Constitution states it is legal for women to vote and should be allowed to vote; she communicates this idea through diction and allusion. It is illegal for the state to tell them otherwise. “For any state to make sex a qualification that must result in
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Civil War. During the Reconstruction Era after the war‚ women took fierce movements to achieve their equal rights and to eliminate discrimination against females. This women’s suffrage movement was led by strong and accomplished women such as Susan B. Anthony‚ Carrie Chapman Catt‚ and Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ and these women formed powerful groups that campaigned‚ protested‚ and battled to lead movements towards achieving equality between men and women. Organized groups of women fought to achieve the
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the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in Washington‚ D.C. (From 1869 until 1890‚ the women’s suffrage movement had been divided between two organizations – one headed by Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell‚ and the other by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton – which had differing methods of achieving their goal; they reconciled differences into
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