...The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention held in the United States. It was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a number of women active in the abolition and temperance movements, and was held July 19–20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. The purpose of the convention was to bring about publically the unfair treatment of women, and was attended by about three-hundred people, forty of these people being men. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a prominent nineteenth century suffragist and civil rights activist, handled the responsibility of writing the declaration that would be debated and signed by those in attendance. Stanton based the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions on the Declaration of Independence, listing eighteen grievances and eleven resolutions all concluding the demand to grant equal rights based off gender. The ninth mentioned resolution arguing for the creation of"elective franchise", or the privilege to vote in elections for public officers, which proved to be the most radical even to Stanton. Stanton being the...
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...The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman.” Held in Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848. (npg.si.edu) The first motion in the Seneca Falls debate discussed the Natural Rights doctrine. The women wanted Americans to re examine the rights given to both genders. The doctrine guaranteed equal rights assigns equal responsibilities to human beings of both sexes. Men used the Bible and God’s nature as an excuse to show that women are inferior to men. Women no longer wanted that used against them while fighting for their equal rights. Speaker 1.1 was a forty year old women who used to get beat by her husband when he was drunk. She didn't have any rights over her children or money because she was a “woman.” Speaker 2.1 was a farmer for thirty five years and he argued that God intended for women to stay at...
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...Have you heard about Seneca Falls Convention? I’ll tell you who invented it and why. Also I'm going to introduced who they are and their names and why they invented it. Here it goes hope you like it. So there was a thing called Seneca Falls Convention. It's for women's. It's all about getting rights and being equal. There's 2 women who invented “Seneca Falls Convention”. Their names (Elizabeth Cady Stanton) and (Lucretia Mott). Lucretia Mott was a Quaker and a mother of 5 kids. She also used her organization skills to set up a petition drive across North. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the daughter of a New York judge. She was an active girl and an excellent student in school. Stanton and Mott joined a group called “World Antislavery Convention”....
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...Before the Seneca Falls Convention, many people kept quiet about the unfairness of the Constitution in regards to women. Women faced many daily challenges that deeply affected their lives and freedom. Women could not speak publicly, own property, divorce their husband, or vote. Those were tough times for all women. At the World’s Antislavery Convention in London 1840, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott met. This meeting of the two women led to a pivotal turning point in the women’s movement. Stanton and Mott were the crucial leaders of the early women’s movement. Together, Stanton and Mott, along with Martha Coffin Wright and Mary Ann McClintock, set the date for the Seneca Falls Convention. They also wrote the Declaration of Sentiments,...
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...Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered this speech at the Seneca Falls Convention, in 1848, New York. Elizabeth was the eight of 11 children, born in Johnstown, New York. Father of Elizabeth was Daniel Cady, and Mother of Elizabeth was Margaret Livingston Cady. Her Father was a prominent federalist attorney who served one term in the United Sates Congress and later become both a circuit court judge, and in 1847, a New York Supreme Court Justice. Slavery did not end in New York until July 4th, 1827, so like many men, her dad was a slave owner and the slave owner is the one who took care of her and her sister Margaret. Stanton throughout the years lost a total of 6 siblings in their early age, and one brother, Eleazar, died at age 20. As...
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...To what extent was the First National Woman's Rights Convention crucial to ensuring the passage of the 19th amendment? The first national woman's rights convention known as Seneca Falls convention was the first woman's rights convention to be held in the United States. This convention led to the launching of the women's suffrage movement which in later decades promised women the right to vote. The first source that provides background on the history of the passage of the 19th amendment is known as a primary source: SENECA FALLS CONVENTION (1848)1. This source is the Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration, a semi-weekly journal that includes recorded documentation from 1848. Within the recorded documentation it discusses the history behind women's...
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...WEEK 10: The Second Great Awakening: religious life in Antebellum America/The Seneca Falls Convention and Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement READINGS: Mary Kupiec Cayton, “The Expanding World of Jacob Norton: Reading, Revivalism, and the Construction of a ‘Second Great Awakening’ in New England, 1787-1804,” Journal of the Early Republic 26, No. 2 (Summer 2006): 221-48; Alison M. Parker, “The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848: A Pivotal Moment in Nineteenth-Century America” (Review of Sally G. McMillen’s Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Woman’s Rights Movement), Reviews in American History 36, No. 3 (September 2008): 341-48. ASSIGNMENT: short commentary 1) Watch Episode 2, “A New Eden,” of the PBS Series God in America and answer the...
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...The first ever woman's rights convention was held I Seneca Falls in July of 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton made her first public statement for women's suffrage. Her call to her to action was codified in the groundbreaking piece of literature known as the declaration of sentiments. This moment in history marks the beginning of the woman's right's movement. The beginnings of the Seneca Falls Convention drawback to the anti-slavery movement, or more specifically the World's Anti-slavery Convention of 1840. The British abolitionist had denied female representation at the convention. Stanton and Mott, who were in attendance of this convention, decided to organize a protest convention back in the states. It would take several years for Stanton and...
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...impact on our close-minded world. The Women’s suffrage Movement was one of the most important and successful movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. It all started in 1848 when a bunch of suffragists came together at the first women’s rights gathering in Seneca Falls, New York....
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...The Fight for Women's Rights The Women’s Rights Movement started in 1848 to 1920, a long range of time for a long range of protests and rebellions. It was officially started in Seneca Falls, New York, by the first women’s right convention. After two days of discussion and debate, 68 women and 32 men signed a Declaration of Sentiments, which outlined grievances and set the agenda for the women’s rights movement. The first National Women’s Rights Convention took place in the year 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and attracted over 1,000 participants. Since then, conventions were held every year to 1860 with the exception of 1857, for no reason in particular. Susan B. Anthony was a women's rights activist and a social reformer who played a tremendously important role in the Women's Suffrage Movement. She was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. After her career in teaching, she became an active member in the temperance movement. Since she was a woman, however, she was not allowed to express herself at temperance...
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...of Seneca Falls, is an inspiring book that shows how the beginning of the women’s movements came about in America. Tetrault is a historian in writing this book and is able to share the history of the Seneca Falls convention and also how some of the most well-known activists made it possible for a right known in America as women’s suffrage. As Tetrault writes this book she begins with a prologue in the beginning that explains some history background to the women’s movement. This showing the flow of the entirety of the book and helps when reading the selection. The author mentions the historians that made this legend and explains them well with background of each...
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...Directions: Complete the following outline in preparation for writing your research paper. Be sure to include proper MLA in-text citation for all your evidence (quotes & paraphrasing). I. Introduction paragraph A. Broad statement: Due to many industrial and social changes during the early 19th century, many women were involved in social advocacy efforts, which eventually led them to advocate for their own right to vote and take part in government agencies. B. Introduction to specific topic and text: The women’s movement of the 1920’s worked to grant women the right to vote nationally, thereby allowing women more political equality. C. Three sub-topic points for your topic 1. Women as public advocates 2. The beginning of the women’s movement 3. The passage of the 19th Amendment II. Sub-Topic 1 A. Topic sentence: Wanting to protect the ideals and morality of the “home”, many women were drawn to social advocacy in order to help correct the deficiencies in the changing 19th century. 1. Introduction to information: Women were very active helping disenfranchised groups who were severely negatively affected by the sweeping social changes in the early 19th century. 2. Evidence: (Quote/paraphrase): Women worked to “improve…the conditions of child workers, the mentally ill, those imprisoned, and the slaves…It was the result of women’s participation in the abolition movement…that women were compelled to address their own political inequality” (Bryant). i. Analysis...
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...war created a push for women's rights by taking women out of the home, breaking down gender roles, and creating more opportunities. Before the war women were obligated to do household jobs like taking care of the kids, doing laundry, etc… however, the first women's movements were made to do exactly the opposite, they wanted to take women out of the home. In the 19th century, women could not own property and were not allowed equal access to education and employment. Married women were obligated to domestic jobs, while single women were allowed to work in factories. However, their wages were half of their male co-workers. ( Riggs, 1479-1480 ) Issues of inequality between men and women were discussed at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. During the convention, the “Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments was created. This document included a detailed list of the ways in which males have oppressed women, including the right to vote, own property, and earn equal wage and education. In response to this New York, along with a few other states, enacted laws allowing women to own and control property. ( Riggs, 1479-1480) As a result of the start of these advancements, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony published “The Revolution.” Newspapers ridiculed their ideas which grew wide public attention to the women's movements in 1868. ( Infobase) In the 19th century, women were seen as inferior to men and too weak to do anything a man does, but the women who fought on the front line...
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...She felt as of women were entitled to the same rights as men were especially the right to vote. “The arbiter of her own destiny…if we are to consider her as a citizen, as a member if a great nation, she must have the same rights as all the other members.” (Brinkley, p. 495). In a society, where women were seen as housewives with no say about anything many people were appalled by the thought of women having the same rights as men. In July of 1848, Elizabeth held the Seneca Fall Convention, and at this convention the Declaration of Sentiments was created. In 1869, Elizabeth became the first president of the National Women’s Suffrage Association and held her role as president until 1890. (Biography.com Elizabeth Stanton). Part of being president of the National Women’s Suffrage Association, she traveled to give speeches, and also wrote the first three volumes of “The History of Women’s Suffrage. By the early 20th century, Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt lead the National Women Suffrage Association. Anna Howard, decided to focus on the cause of women’s suffrage. From 1892 to 1904 she was vice president of the National American Suffrage Association, then moved up to be president in 1904 until 1915. (Biography.com Anna...
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...Women's Rights notes • Many women's rights activists were Quakers, like Lucretia Mott • Mott also helped found the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slave Society • Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked together for women's rights • July 1848- first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY • Made Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions • suffrage- right to vote • Women's Rights Movement started after convention • Susan B. Anthony wanted equal pay for women, college training for girls, and coeducation • coeducation- the teaching of boys and girls together • First women's temperance association founded by Anthony, Daughters of Temperance • Wyoming gave women the right to vote in 1890, several other states followed • Federal Women's Suffrage law passed in 1920 • Catherine Beecher and Emma Hart Willard thought women should be educated for traditional roles • Milwaukee College set up classes based on this: " to train women to be healthful, intelligent, and successful wives, mothers, and housekeepers." • Emma Willard educated herself in science and math, which at the time were considered only for boys • Founded the Troy Female Seminary in NY, taught academic subjects as well as homemaking ones • Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Mass in 1837 • Modeled its curriculum of that of Amherst College • Mew York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and California gave women the right to own property after marriage • Some states allowed women...
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