of abolition were main inspirations. Women’s rights movements were becoming more common. More women than ever were coming together to protest. The Seneca Falls Convention was the first organized women’s rights movement. When women went to other conventions they were excluded‚ this convention was about women and for women. These conventions would eventually persuade congress to pass a law allowing women to vote in the 1900’s. Education movements were also a common thing among minorities. Young Americans
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idea of holding a women’s convention that discussed the mistreatments of women. During the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton created the Declaration of Sentiments which was a document that was much similar to the Declaration of Independence but in which discussed about the exercising rights of the women. As a result of the convention‚ over one hundred men and women signed the Declaration of Sentiments. But within the few following days of the convention‚ there was a continuous
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to college educate each of their children. Elizabeth Stanton started lecturing and touring to earn money for the educational expenses. Anthony kept busy writing her own arguments for suffrage and making (some unwanted) appearances at rallies and conventions. Thus‚ Anthony became synonymous with the women’s movement post-amendments. By the early 1880s‚ Stanton weary of lecturing returned home to begin work on another book. She toiled so fervently that her daughter whisked Elizabeth away to Europe after
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women’s rights movement worked to change women’s status in society. Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the first U.S. women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls‚ New York‚ to discuss women’s civil rights. The organizers of this event considered themselves patriots and viewed women’s rights as part of the American Revolution’s ideals of equality and justice for all. At the convention in Seneca Falls‚ more than 300 men and women discussed the Declaration and debated 12 resolutions that proclaimed women’s rights
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religion. “ As time passed‚ Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London and when the conference refused to seat them and other women delegates from America because of their sex‚ Stanton and Mott called a convention to address the condition of women‚ called The Seneca Falls Convention. This convention began her public career. Stanton wrote “articles for the press‚ letters to other conventions” and even gave speeches. This group of women grew immensely until the time had
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share all of the same rights as men‚ including the right to vote. It was not until 1848 that the movement for women’s rights launched on a national level. Abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) and Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) organized a convention in Seneca Falls‚ New York to demand for the right to vote. This action would later become a centerpiece of the women’s rights movement. Stanton and Mott‚ along with Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) and other activists‚ formed organizations that raised
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still denied the right to vote. The Women’s suffrage Movement took several years to make its way through and successfully in 1920 women won voting rights. It first began with the very first women’s rights convention in the United states at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Fall‚ New York‚ 1848. The convention was organized by Elizabeth
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women’s rights convention‚ which was held in Seneca Falls‚ New York. It was not until over 70 yeas later that women were finally given the right to vote when the 19th amendment was completely ratified in 1920. The Seneca Falls convention was called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott out of their anger with male abolitionists and the patriarchal system that they represented. In 1840‚ when Stanton and Mott attended the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention‚ the predominately male convention refused to
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Congress‚ “but its internal divisions foreshadowed the persistent disagreements among women in Congress and among women’s rights activists after the passage of the 19th Amendment” (History‚ Art & Archives). The idea of leaders and women’s rights conventions were only the beginning for the head strong women of the 19th century. In the United States the first definitive position on women’s rights was taken in 1848 under the leadership of Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Women’s Rights
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The Constitutional Convention took place in May 1787. Delegates from all of the states except for Rhode Island met in the Philadelphia State House in the exact room that 11 years ago‚ the Declaration of Independence was signed. There were 55 delegates and most of them were lawyers‚ merchants‚ or planters‚ making them rich and educated men. The Constitutional Convention occurred because many of America’s leaders had become unsatisfied at that time with the government structure by which the Articles
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