“If you do not change the direction, you may end up where you are going.” This quote by Lao Tzu symbolizes that even when the nation was changing after the Revolutionary War, the rights of women didn’t change. The movement was useful for more than a change in law, it was a fight to change the public”s opinion on women. This led for women to fight to change their rights, with this taking nearly one hundred years to accomplish the original goal.
This movement started off with five women who decided to casually hang out, on a scolding hot summer day. One of the women that was apart of the group of women was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The women started to conversation about different topics and problems that the nation was in during that time. They ended up having the rights of women being brought up, with that happening it started to make the women feel less of themselves because they didn’t have the same rights as the men of the nation. The women kept on talking and ended up agreeing upon each other’s opinions, which was that even after the Revolutionary war, women made equal to larger sacrifices than the men of the war made, but the women were still treated with out any rights. After the women finished talking to each other, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the other women decided to make a convention, to bring the awareness to other women to know and hopefully join the cause that Elizabeth and her fellow women were fighting for. This ended up giving the Women’s Rights Movement some standing ground in this war against the public opinion. Since, the first convention ended up going so well, Elizabeth decided to do another convention. …show more content…
The second convention did even better than the first convention that she and her colleagues hosted, this was the Seneca Falls convection. This ended up gaining the attention of both men and women who didn’t know about the issue before. With the movement gaining so much popularity, an organization was form which the called the, “ National Organization for Women”, otherwise know as the (NOW). Now with this being a women’s organization the public didn’t take seriously at first, but after two years of the organization being created it was taken serious as an actual organization. This organization tried to form a Bill of Rights for women, but if failed ultimately. The creation of the bill just started controversy throughout the organization, but with this Elizabeth told the legislative that “We hold these truth to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certainty inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The movement continued to grow as more women and men knew about the issues that women faced. This movement wasn’t going to end until the original goal was accomplished, which was for women to have equal rights. On August 26,1920 part of the movements goal was achieved, they received the right to vote. This became the goal for the right’s movement because the legislation would not pass the “Equal Rights Amendment”, that the National Organization for Women offered. With women gaining the right to vote they put
This movement started off with five women who decided to casually hang out, on a scolding hot summer day. One of the women that was apart of the group of women was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The women started to conversation about different topics and problems that the nation was in during that time. They ended up having the rights of women being brought up, with that happening it started to make the women feel less of themselves because they didn’t have the same rights as the men of the nation. The women kept on talking and ended up agreeing upon each other’s opinions, which was that even after the Revolutionary war, women made equal to larger sacrifices than the men of the war made, but the women were still treated with out any rights. After the women finished talking to each other, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the other women decided to make a convention, to bring the awareness to other women to know and hopefully join the cause that Elizabeth and her fellow women were fighting for. This ended up giving the Women’s Rights Movement some standing ground in this war against the public opinion. Since, the first convention ended up going so well, Elizabeth decided to do another convention. …show more content…
The second convention did even better than the first convention that she and her colleagues hosted, this was the Seneca Falls convection. This ended up gaining the attention of both men and women who didn’t know about the issue before. With the movement gaining so much popularity, an organization was form which the called the, “ National Organization for Women”, otherwise know as the (NOW). Now with this being a women’s organization the public didn’t take seriously at first, but after two years of the organization being created it was taken serious as an actual organization. This organization tried to form a Bill of Rights for women, but if failed ultimately. The creation of the bill just started controversy throughout the organization, but with this Elizabeth told the legislative that “We hold these truth to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certainty inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The movement continued to grow as more women and men knew about the issues that women faced. This movement wasn’t going to end until the original goal was accomplished, which was for women to have equal rights. On August 26,1920 part of the movements goal was achieved, they received the right to vote. This became the goal for the right’s movement because the legislation would not pass the “Equal Rights Amendment”, that the National Organization for Women offered. With women gaining the right to vote they put