Seneca Falls Convention

The Progressive Era was a time in United States history when big changes were beginning to occur all over. Major campaigns began that focused on reforms such as temperance, abolition, women 's rights, and asylum and prison reformation. Because of great pioneers that took the time to make a difference, our country is so much better and stronger. What is reform? Reform is to make changes in something in order to improve it. Every individual that was involved in the reformation era had one thing in…

giving speeches, attending conventions, and organizing groups. Though her main concern earlier in life was abolitionism, she began to see and push for women 's rights as well. Early in life Lucretia Mott followed in her parents footsteps and became quite an intense abolitionist. However, anti-slavery organizations wouldn’t recognize women as leaders, so Mott organized women’s abolitionist societies. Lucretia help to organize as well as attended the First Anti-Slavery Convention of Women. Mott…

men were trying to gain for themselves from England. Adams warns her husband not to ignore these issues, or the ladies would form a rebellion that would not hold them to any laws that do not give them representation or their own voice. At the Seneca Falls conference, Lucretia Mott, and many others, pushed for women to have full legal rights, and privileges of citizenship; to own property in their name, to higher education, to vote, and to pursue professional aspirations. The resulting…

At the start of this convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton opened with a rewording of the Declaration of Independence “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights” (Seneca Falls Declaration,p.1). This declaration was the beginning of the women’s rights movement, stating specifically that they wanted equal…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where, unlike her husband, she was not allowed to participate. The treatment of women abolitionists at the convention made Stanton and her new friend Lucretia Mott decide to organize their own convention, this time, in the United States. On July 19, 1848, Seneca Fall Convention – the first public meeting about women’s rights in the US, was opened. In preparation for convention, the Declaration of Sentiments – a…

society; including man. During the Seneca Falls Convention, women spoke their minds/ and made it clear as to what their intentions were as to equal rights for women; by being stern to the opinion and concerns. “As progressive as the abolitionist movement was, the inherent sexism of the day served to divide and alienate its members; while men feared that abolitionist goals would weaken by attention to women’s rights” (Lindsey, 2011, pg. 128). At the Seneca Convention, a list of these women’s…

step out of the female sphere then, it would be detrimental to the society, as they wouldn 't be fulfilling their true duties for the feminine sphere. Notwithstanding with Beecher, Cady Stanton believed counter to that. In the address to Seneca Falls convention in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton stated, “ women stands by side of man, his equal, placed here by her God, to enjoy with him the beautiful earth, which is her home as it is his, having the same sense of right and wrong, and looking to…

Lucretia Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, and a handful of other women systematized the first women’s rights convention at the Stanton home in Seneca Falls on July 19 and 20. Stanton wrote a Declaration of Sentiments, which she displayed on the Declaration of Independence, to formally proclaim the equality of men and women and propose resolutions, including female suffrage. The Seneca Falls Convention was attended by over 300 people, including Frederick Douglass. One hundred of the participants…

Revolutionaries like, Elizabeth Stanton, aided the movement by organizing the Seneca Falls Convention and writing the Declaration of Sentiment, which later became the blueprint for the Women’s Right’s Movement. Although, it may seem as the women’s rights movement may be progressing there is still much to be done. From gaining the right to…

Going back into ancient times, a woman’s role in society was always centered in the household. Tending to the children, keeping the house clean, making dinner for her husband and children, etc. were typical roles. It was not until the passing of the 19th Amendment that women were given their rights and their voice was heard. Women should not have been abused and tortured in the early 1900’s but they were. During the Shirtwaist Strike of 1909 women were beaten and ridiculed for wanting…