A stifling, sweltering heat came over her. She wasn’t sure whether it was the generally feverish July weather, the soaring tenacious grip of her high neckline, or the unwavering perlustration of 300 pairs of eyes gazing up at her. She knew in her heart this event was the beginning. She knew they were making history. With this knowledge she began her address, articulately and academically, leaving no room for reproval or ridicule. Who was this woman who felt so vulnerable? This woman was Elizabeth Stanton and this is my interpretation of how I believe she felt that historical day in the fight for women's rights. The Seneca Falls Convention was the first step undertaken to gain rights for women. The nineteenth amendment took a lengthy time to
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Seventy- two years, it took seventy-two wearisome years from the time the first convention transpired to when the passing of the nineteenth amendment was triumphant. The first organized convention for women's rights was the Seneca Falls Convention, with only 300 people in attendance the organizers, Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott, managed to light a fire into the heart of the nation. Woman’s right to vote became the topic of the nation. The movement became more organized in 1852, when the woman decided to elect Stanton the president of the Woman’s State Society with Susan B. Anthony as her secretary. Unfortunately for them as they are finally becoming an organized front the puissance that women's rights had picked up relinquished priority to the Civil War in 1861. After the war, right’s for African American men had become the priority and women's rights were put on the back-burner. It wasn’t until 1878 that the nineteenth amendment will be proposed to Congress for the first time, although the bill would be defeated in 1886 woman did not give up and Colorado will become the first state to adopt a state amendment allowing women to vote. At this point Stanton and Anthony’s youth is deteriorating the torch must be consigned. Carrie Chapman Catt was
Seventy- two years, it took seventy-two wearisome years from the time the first convention transpired to when the passing of the nineteenth amendment was triumphant. The first organized convention for women's rights was the Seneca Falls Convention, with only 300 people in attendance the organizers, Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott, managed to light a fire into the heart of the nation. Woman’s right to vote became the topic of the nation. The movement became more organized in 1852, when the woman decided to elect Stanton the president of the Woman’s State Society with Susan B. Anthony as her secretary. Unfortunately for them as they are finally becoming an organized front the puissance that women's rights had picked up relinquished priority to the Civil War in 1861. After the war, right’s for African American men had become the priority and women's rights were put on the back-burner. It wasn’t until 1878 that the nineteenth amendment will be proposed to Congress for the first time, although the bill would be defeated in 1886 woman did not give up and Colorado will become the first state to adopt a state amendment allowing women to vote. At this point Stanton and Anthony’s youth is deteriorating the torch must be consigned. Carrie Chapman Catt was