right to vote. Women had realized that it was unfair for slaves to be able to vote‚ and not women. It specifically caught the attention of‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ Lucretia Mott‚ and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Later‚ in 1848 the Seneca Falls Convention was held. The convention was held by‚ Lucretia Mott‚ and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The convention was about women’s rights. Women were inspired to change the way they were treated. After the convention‚ many other conventions about women’s suffrage were held
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are really after; and what they are after‚ in common with all the rest of the struggling world‚ is freedom” (Eastman). The women’s rights movement had many women who fought for women’s rights‚ some of these women included Susan B. Anthony‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott and many more. These women worked extremely hard as activist for women’s rights. The fight lasted for many years‚ but they day finally came and women got the right to vote and now they could begin. History.house.gov states
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Abolition‚ Women’s Rights and Democracy The second Great Awakening in the early eighteen hundreds was a widespread religious revival that greatly impacted society. Its influences that appealed to emotions rather than doctrine were greatly supported by reformers who sought to improve themselves as well as society’s ills. Of these reformers some movements began to form including movements for abolition and women’s rights. For example‚ a famous minister‚ Charles Grandison Finney of the Second Great
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Susan B Anthony discovered a sort of liberating partnership they could forge. Anthony found that the temperance movements they confined themselves and did not expect an unequal rights. In 1869 Anthony and Stanton was distinct from equal rights movement. During the civil war Elizabeth Cady Stanton concentrated her efforts on abolishing slavery‚ afterward she was more out spoken in promoting women suffrage. In the 1860s‚ the feminist movement moved to New Zealand. Muller noted that men and women
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Synthesis Essay Where does the desire to not just live‚ but strive come from? To not just succeed but exceed? To not just be great but be the only thing acceptable in one’s heart‚ the best. In “You Should Have Been a Boy‚” Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s determination to make her father proud‚ drove her to do what most women of her time never did: earn a higher education or speak out against injustice. In the essay‚ “Superman and Me‚” Sherman Alexie’s unrelenting passion for reading allowed him to turn
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and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the convention‚ when they both met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. 4. Why was it held in Seneca Falls? Elizabeth Stanton’s home was near Seneca Falls and she worked with other women around the area and a significant reform community emerged in western New York in the 1830s and 40s. 5. How did the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London inspire the organizers of the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention? Mott and Stanton were
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first Women’s Rights Convention to have ever taken place. This convention was organized by Women’s Rights Activists (as well as Antislavery activists) Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ and Lucretia Mott. According to Stanton‚ the ultimate goal of this convention was to discuss the social‚ civil‚ and religious condition and right[s] of woman. Neither Mott nor Stanton expected the ‘rally’ to have many visitors‚ however they were completely wrong. Their convention surprisingly had over 300 supporters. This proved
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__________________________________________________________________________ Directions and Analysis Task 1: Analyzing Historical Documents In this activity‚ you will reference two primary-source historical documents: Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Pearl Harbor speech by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Before you read the documents‚ read these instructions. Using what you learned in this unit‚ examine the sources provided to answer these questions: Who authored the document
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5th Challenging the 15th Amendment caused a big division within the civil rights movement and two organizations emerged. In 1869‚ Stanton and Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) to work for the right to vote on the federal level and press for wider institutional changes. Another organization‚ the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) was founded by suffragists‚ Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe‚ who believed that once African American men were granted the right to vote
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citizens be acknowledged and that they be respected. In a message delivered at the Convention by Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Stanton told the convention members that the purpose of the assemblage was to protest women being governed without their permission‚ and she also stated that women have a right to be free just like men are free‚ that women should have a right to be represented in the government (Stanton‚ 1848). In order to gain these rights the US Declaration of Sentiments was presented‚ debated and
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