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 seat female delegates. Stanton and Mott‚ along with other activist women in the U.S. started to see the similarities between their own status and that of the
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From Famine to Five Point Five Points is‚ as the extended title boasts‚ "The 19th century New York neighborhood that invented tap dance‚ stole elections and became the world’s most notorious slum." Unlike most subtitles that promise all by the moon and the stars‚ all these statements and more are absolutely true. The Five Points neighborhood quite literally defines the term melting pot‚ a mixture of cultures‚ faiths and political ideologies that was at one time volatile but also a source of amazing
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Standing before a crowd packed into Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls‚ New York‚ thirty-two-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton proclaimed: “We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men and women are created equal.” The intent of her statement was clear – to give new meaning to Jefferson’s often quoted phrase from the Declaration of Independence. Using Jefferson’s document as a model‚ Stanton created and presented the “Declaration of Sentiments‚” a document that became the grand movement for
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The resolution calling for woman suffrage had passed‚ after much debate‚ at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848‚ convened by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. In “The Declaration of Sentiments‚” a document based upon the Declaration of Independence‚ the numerous demands of these early activists were elucidated. The 1848 convention had challenged America to a social revolution that would touch every aspect of life. Early women’s rights leaders believed suffrage to be the most effective means
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throwing stones at it‚ and eventually lighting it on fire. The demoralizing reaction seemed only to galvanize these pioneers. With deepened resolve‚ the women continued to meet. In 1848‚ five religious women‚ including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott‚ a Quaker Minister‚ would meet in Seneca Falls‚ New York for their infamous tea party during which they would plot a revolution. These women were both revolutionaries and visionaries who had their eyes on a truth that transcended man-made religious
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involved in the lives of active abolitionists. e. When they moved back to New York‚ Elizabeth met with Lucretia Mott and three other Quaker women. III. Seneca Falls Convention a. Elizabeth participated in abolitionist‚ women’s rights‚ and sobriety communities while still raising her family. She felt that women should not be satisfied with only being a mother and a wife. b. In 1848‚ Elizabeth‚ Lucretia Mott‚ Martha Coffin Wright‚ and many other women put together the first women’s rights convention. c.
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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 first women’s rights convention in the United States. The meeting took place on July 19-20
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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
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 Lucretia Coffin Mott was born on January 3‚ 1793‚ to Quaker parents in Nantucket‚ Massachusetts. When she was 13‚ her parents decided to send her to a co-ed school in New York. She ended up meeting her future husband‚ James Mott at this school. From 1808 to 1810‚ Lucretia got the job as an assistant teacher at Nine Partners school. During this time‚ her family moved to Philadelphia‚ where she would live for the rest of her life. James married Lucretia in 1811. He worked in the cotton
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Stanton showcased the article amid the Seneca Falls convention of 1848‚ which also included Lucretia Mott‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Martha C. Wright‚ and Mary Ann McClintock. These early feminists set the agenda and led the convention‚ which culminated in the reading and signing of the Declaration. Based on the Declaration of Independence‚ Sentiments
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