and be sued by others if unmarried. A women who became married gave up everything to her husband‚ even her name. During the history the men effectively owned his wife and the children as material possessions. Two women‚ Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony‚ who were temperance and antislavery advocates formed the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) in New York in 1869. Another women‚ Lucy Stone‚ organized American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA) in Boston at the same time. As women start
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Leader in the Movement for Women’s Rights I. Early Life a. Elizabeth was born in 1815 in New York. b. She was one of eleven children and only six survived past their youth. This caused her mother to go into deep depression. c. Elizabeth received a good education for a woman and spent a lot of time of with her father who discussed books and legal issues with her. d. When her only surviving brother from her childhood died‚ her father was very upset and told Elizabeth that he
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universities‚ speak in public‚ or own property‚ and were essentially forced to fight for their place within society. Regardless of these difficulties‚ women gathered strength in numbers and succeeded in establishing permanent social changes. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton began to work together on women’s rights and one of the first issues they worked on were property rights for married women. The Married Woman’s Property Act had been passed in New York Stat in 1848. However‚ there were
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When the constitution was written‚ the idea of universal suffrage was too radical for our founding fathers to address. They decided to leave the states with the authority to decide the requirements for voting. (Janda) By allowing the states to decide who voted‚ the authors had not intended for each state ’s discriminations to prevent the country from maintaining true democracy. However‚ by not setting up a nationwide regulation‚ the authors launched the country into a century and a half long fight
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The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was the first spark to women’s rights movements in Antebellum America. Without this meeting‚ life for women today could be entirely different. Rights that seem obligatory to women today‚ like being able to vote‚ and occupational diversity for women. Women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Coffin Mott helped to kickstart the innovative ideas produced before and through the convention. The Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls was the site of the
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that was never thought impossible. But‚ as years passed‚ women such as Susan B. Anthony‚ Lucretia Mott‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Lucy Stone‚ and Elizabeth Blackwell began to question why they were at home all day raising the children‚ and why they did not have jobs like the men. This happened between the years of 1776 and 1876‚ when the lives and status of Northern middle-class woman was changed forever. Women began to leave the house and begin work‚ and also began movements for equal rights for woman
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led the United States through the process of gaining the new country an identity. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. guided the black community through southern racism‚ and is responsible for the advancement of civil rights in the twentieth century. Susan B. Anthony was the head of the women’s rights movement to gain female suffrage. All of these leaders share something in common; for without the support of the every day people of the world‚ none of the three would have been successful in their goals as
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Gates Starr founded the Hull House. This was a famous settlement house in Chicago which relieved the effects of poverty by providing social services for people in the neighborhood such as teaching English to immigrants‚ pioneering early-childhood education‚ teaching industrial arts‚ and establishing neighborhood theaters and music schools. By its second year of existence‚ Hull House proved for about two thousand people each week. Addams sparked the settlement house movement in America; there were
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Paul and Lucy Barnes (Frances O’Conner) join forces with Anna Howard Shaw (Lois Smith) and Carrie Chapman Catt (Anjelica Huston) who are the leaders of NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association) founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. President Woodrow Wilson is adamantly against this movement and abuses his power as president to try and keep women in their place. Eventually Paul and Barnes split from NAWSA to form the NWP (National Woman’s Party) This brilliantly written
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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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