1848, the birth of a movement that would change the lives of women in the United States(Wheeler, p.9). What would later be known as the The Women’s Suffrage Movement planted roots in a developing area for this country. Post Civil War era the likes of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and a host of other women began speaking out for women in the hopes that their rights could be advanced alongside those of African-Americans. Up to this point in time women rights were under the idea of coverture. Coverture is derived from the English common law system and it was carried into the colonies this concept includes the following: “ a women has no independent or legal standing and is covered by her father until the time of marriage and then the
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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, legal, social, political and cultural rights to men. They began to take measures to achieve these goals, forming protests, letters to congress, and many forms of political activism. Although the original pioneers of the Women’s Movement including, Stanton and Mott passed away before they could see major change in the rights of women, the movement eventually leads up to the granting of women’s suffrage in 1920. Women’s suffrage farther changed the role of women as they began to gain many of the rights they demanded with the ratification of the nineteenth amendment, but they still strive for equality …show more content…
The first was The National Woman Suffrage Association(NWSA) this group was lead by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony(Wheeler, p.10). This group was considered to be more radical of the two and want to get an Amendment through federal action. The second organization that was founded was the American Woman Suffrage Association(AWSA); comparatively to its neighbor organization that was founded in New York this one was in Boston and was led by the likes of Lucy Stone, Mary Livermore, and Julia Ward Howe(Wheeler, p.10). A key distinction between these two organizations is that the NWSA was led entirely by women while the AWSA included men in the management of the organization. The AWSA at this time was looking to start off local and expand outwards one tool they used was the The Woman’s Journal(Wheeler, p.10). The Woman’s Journal, sent out their support for women, and gave them ideas about how they could demonstrate certain political convictions to congress. Both of these publications argued that the power of women’s citizenship was at issue, and they attempted to advocate for women’s collective political power (Burek 3). Jennifer Ann Burek states in referring to the involvement of these publications that what emerges from the study of these newspapers’ efforts to bring the government to address women’s issues and of how those
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, legal, social, political and cultural rights to men. They began to take measures to achieve these goals, forming protests, letters to congress, and many forms of political activism. Although the original pioneers of the Women’s Movement including, Stanton and Mott passed away before they could see major change in the rights of women, the movement eventually leads up to the granting of women’s suffrage in 1920. Women’s suffrage farther changed the role of women as they began to gain many of the rights they demanded with the ratification of the nineteenth amendment, but they still strive for equality …show more content…
The first was The National Woman Suffrage Association(NWSA) this group was lead by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony(Wheeler, p.10). This group was considered to be more radical of the two and want to get an Amendment through federal action. The second organization that was founded was the American Woman Suffrage Association(AWSA); comparatively to its neighbor organization that was founded in New York this one was in Boston and was led by the likes of Lucy Stone, Mary Livermore, and Julia Ward Howe(Wheeler, p.10). A key distinction between these two organizations is that the NWSA was led entirely by women while the AWSA included men in the management of the organization. The AWSA at this time was looking to start off local and expand outwards one tool they used was the The Woman’s Journal(Wheeler, p.10). The Woman’s Journal, sent out their support for women, and gave them ideas about how they could demonstrate certain political convictions to congress. Both of these publications argued that the power of women’s citizenship was at issue, and they attempted to advocate for women’s collective political power (Burek 3). Jennifer Ann Burek states in referring to the involvement of these publications that what emerges from the study of these newspapers’ efforts to bring the government to address women’s issues and of how those