Seneca Falls Convention

It took over 70 years for women to finally be given a voice and the right to vote. The 19th amendment helped the women of America become who they are today. Without the Women’s Suffrage Movement, America would be a different place. The women’s suffrage movement all started in the year 1848 where the women were treated as a prized possession in front of a guess, but behind closed doors, they were mentally and physically abused. The women were supposed to just sit and be pretty and stay quiet…

In the 1800’s women did not have nearly as many rights as men. To name a few inequalities, women did not have the right to vote, own property, divorce their husbands, and countless others that diminished them as a population. This of course, was fuel for the women’s rights movement. So many women and men took part in this movement, but three women in particular were able to change the course of history. These commendable women truly made a difference. And dbcksbckjbthey were Emma Willard,…

prominent ideas in the 18th and early 19th centuries that encouraged women to stay home and perform menial tasks. This notion of separate spheres between men and women began to be contested as the 19th century progressed. Beginning with the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 and continuing throughout the Gilded Age, society’s views on women were challenged. Culminating with the Progressive Era, women gained various political rights, most notably gaining the right to vote. Despite experiencing a…

Since the beginning of time, girls and boys are expected by society to play certain roles in based on traditions, different religions, and beliefs. These behaviors shape the gender roles in the developing world. Women were denied the right to vote until the nineteenth amendment was passed in 1920, fifty years after African American men were granted suffrage. Woman not having natural rights such as, the right to vote, access to equal education, right to divorce and so forth, did not stop them…

One in particular have been the Seneca Falls convention which was arguably the beginning of the journey towards women’s equal rights. On July 19th, 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York almost 200 women attended a conference organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to “discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women.” (History)…

apart in the effectiveness and remembrance of the speeches, as well as their leadership positions and impact they left on the nation in the development of equality. In the early years of this fight for women’s suffrage small conventions were held such as the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, where a leading reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke to an eager crowd of women and men following women 's rights. This movement led to a similar women and friend of Stanton, Susan B. Anthony to travel a’ nd…

these virtues were commonly white and Protestant and live in the northern colonies such as New England. The cult of domesticity women were considered the main person of the household. It was the idea of feminity, although all women were suppose to fall under this idea but women who were of color or were an immigrant were not considered true…

Susan B. Anthony and Women’s Rights. What would you do if you were a woman in the 1800’s and your rights were taken from you? Would getting arrested like Susan B Anthony be worth it? Any female in this day and age definitely would (Ohrenschall). Anthony would be very proud, us women have come a long way since the 1800’s, and it is all because of her act on civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is when a protestor/protestors break a law, objecting and protesting (Suber). The purpose of civil…

those who opposed the rights of women were more than often violent, and would jail, abuse, and taunt the supporters. By 1848, the fight for women’s rights went national. Abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first convention addressing women’s rights in…

They organized the Seneca Fall Convention, which was to discuss and support the injustices against women 's rights and suffrage. In the meeting, the women 's drafted the Declaration of Sentiments, a document declaring the rights of women which was a deliberate pattern to the Declaration…