that would be the site of the first Women’s Rights Convention. With that simple preparation, on the morning of July 19, the roads to the church were jammed with carriages and carts. A crowd was milling around outside when Stanton arrived to find the church inadvertently locked and the key missing. The first day of the meeting was to be for women only, but Stanton and the others did not know how to ask the men who were present to leave. The convention had strong support from some men. In fact, the women
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My choice for the historic document is Carrie Chapman Catt’s persuasive argument titled "Address to the Congress on Women's Suffrage." Her thesis states “Woman suffrage is inevitable” (Catt 1) and her paper explain why. She has three causes that make up her argument which is both logical and clear. She is asking for Women’s Suffrage; she needs to comport herself in a rational, cohesive, manner. Catt knows the audience she must convince will be men. Therefore, she chose logos as her mode of persuasion
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that women were not suitable for jobs outside the home; traditionally a woman’s place was in the home, where she taught, nurtured, and cared for her family and was supportive to her spouse. In Seneca Falls, New York, is the first women’s rights convention in 1848, which set the agenda as well as outlined grievances for the rights of the women movement. The movement called for twelve resolutions with the adoption of equivalent treatment of both sex under the law for the rights of voting. Susan
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males were making $10.00 monthly and that female were only making $2.50. After that Anthony’s parents, sister and Anthony attended the Rochester Women’s Rights Convention August 2, 1848. “Meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton was probably the beginning of her interest in women’s rights, but it is Lucy Stone’s speech at the 1852 Syracuse Convention that is credited for convincing Anthony to join the women’s rights movement”(nps.gov, 2015.) In 1853 Anthony campaigned for property rights in N.Y.C, she spoke
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In Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Declaration of the Rights of Women, she copies Thomas Jefferson's style and technique to advocate for women's rights. Comparing both Stanton and Jefferson, I believe they share some similarities. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American abolitionist, social activist, writer, suffragist and leading figure of the early women's right movement. She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments(or Declaration of the Rights of Women) which fought for the civil, political, social, and religious
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In the spring of 1832, a free, young African American woman, Maria W. Miller Stewart, rose to address a Boston audience. During the next three years, Stewart made a total of four public addresses, published a political pamphlet and a collection of meditations, and then retired deliberately from the public stage, seemingly defeated by the obstacles arrayed against her as both an African American and a female speaker.[1] Some critics give Stewart credit as the first American-born woman to deliver a
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton has many titles associated with her name: wife, mother, abolitionist, suffragist, social activist, but mainly a protector, defender, and fighter of women’s rights. From the age of twenty-five up until her death at age eighty-six, Stanton was involved publicly in speaking out in favor of social reforms, especially those that concerned women. Unlike other female activists of her time, she would speak directly in front of state and federal legislative bodies in order to accomplish
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Women did not gain the right to vote until 1920, which is a long way away from the first convention for women's rights in 1848. It took seventy- two years for the women of America to see change in the way that society saw them (History 2). Society believed that women were meant to be housewives and tend to the children and that was that. Women
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Women Rights Upon attending the women rights convention, I gained a load of knowledge of the current situation that we women are experiencing and what should be done to put a stop to the unfairness women are experiencing. The first of the women rights conventions was held in the United States, and for the last two days debates have been held on the rights and freedoms of women. Held in Seneca Falls, New York the convention was organized by several women who are involved in both the temperance movement
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Louisa lives in Baton Rouge, LA. In 2002, her husband, Jacques, was killed in a boating accident. Because of this, Louisa became depressed and started drinking heavily. Unfortunately, there were several times that her drinking and depression got the better of her and she had a few incidents where she severely beat her two children, Marie and Pierre, aged 6 and 8 respectively. Based on those incidents, the children were removed from Louisa's home and placed with a foster family in 2003, where they
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