Summary Of The 19th Amendment

The addition of the 19th amendment was partly due to Elizabeth Cady Stanton because of her 50 years of devotion to the cause. In the first text, written by Howard Mansfield, he explained the contribution of Elizabeth, the best in my opinion. Howard best explains the conventions needed and the steps taken to get the 19th amendment approved. In the second passage, they talk more about how she met a friend and went into less detail about how they were able to get women’s rights. In the first passage there was a lot more focus on how Elizabeth was able to convince women and even some men to support women’s rights. In the passage they talk about the need to vote. Woman then thought the meeting would “look ridiculous” but Elizabeth brought up the point in a debate anyway. She thought that a woman should be able to the same as a man in order to take their place in the world and she was right because we see it today. The author states the kind of attitude the newspapers had on the situation, they said that it would be wrong to give women rights. Some of the newspapers were sympathetic and said that woman should have rights because …show more content…
At first she was very nervous to speak and many couldn’t hear her at the second convention, eventually she was able to get over her fear. The author says that she modeled the rights women wanted after the Declaration of Independence but they called it The Declaration of Sentiments that was signed by a total of 100 people 68 woman and 32 men. Out of the 12 resolutions the author points out the 3rd; because it states “that woman is man’s equal was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she be recognized as such.” During the process of getting all of the resolutions the 9th was almost not approved, being able to allow women to vote. In a extensive debate they were able to get the 9th resolution was