Seneca Falls
The Seneca Falls Declaration was written in 1848 at a convention in Seneca Falls New York. Two Quaker women, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organized the convention. The idea for the convention came about when Mott was denied a seat at an international antislavery meeting in London. The convention was comprised of 240 people, 40 of whom were men. The Seneca Falls Declaration was modeled after the Declaration of Independence. The Deceleration of Seneca Falls has an introduction that states the women have rights by God and Nature. They use the line, “that all men and women are created equal” other than “that all men are created equal”. They state that women have access to the alienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, just like the men. These women were working to abolish the set of customs and roles that are followed and want the woman to man relationship to become equal. They believe this abolishment is necessary for the future. The second part of the declaration is a list of rights and duties that men have restricted women from having and doing. The list includes things such as restricting women from having a voice in society, having absolutely no self representation, once a women is married she is “civilly dead”, taking way a women’s wages that she has earned, denying a women a chance at education, destroying a women’s confidence in her own power and her self respect, making a women dependent on a man and many other rights that are stripped from women by men. The Seneca Falls Declaration was used as goal for women over the next 70 years in the suffrage movement. Women needed something to get them going and fired about to fight back against men. The Declaration may have helped women to understand that they should and have right to be equal to men. Gender should be the main factor in the division of power and rights. If not for this movement, women today may still be in the same roles that women in 1848 were in. In today’s