Nicole Moorefield Macpherson AP English III September 5, 2017 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls On July 19, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton changed the course of American history forever. Standing before a crowd of almost two hundred women, Stanton read aloud the document she had prepared. The “Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances” or the “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” was structurally based on the Declaration of Independence,…
about universal suffrage in America, until 1880. About that time, one of her most important speeches, ‘Our Girls’, came into play mostly talking about gender equality. Also in 1880, she stopped leturing and became dedicated to her writing. Helping Anthony write two volumes of their “History of Women Suffrage”. She also co-authored “The Women’s Bible”, in 1895. October 26, 1902, Stanton died in her home from heart failure in her sleep. She felt as if she had a life that was meant to mean…
of female equality. Elizabeth was born on the 12th of November in 1815. She grew up and was born in Johnstown, New York. Stanton was not only an activist but an abolitionist and a great writer as well as an editor. She worked closely with Susan B. Anthony who was a feminist and an american social reformer. Stanton was the president for the National Women Suffrage Association. Stanton was a part of this association for twenty years. Stanton graduated from the Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary.…
Susan Brownell Anthony (Feb. 20, 1820 - March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and a feminist who played an important role in the woman’s suffrage movement. She began to collect anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and herself founded the New York Women’s State Temperance Society after Anthony was not allowed to speak at a temperance conference because she was a woman. She began the movement to equality in women, although we are still looked at as minorities,…
Do you know who sparked Susan B. Anthony into women’s suffrage protests? She was the writer of “Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention,” Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Do you know who John Adams’s wife is? She was the writer of “Letter to John Adams,” Mrs. Abigail Adams. These two stories are fighting for the same liberty, women’s suffrage, but they use different tones and the writers come from different backgrounds which can influence their opinions and ideas.…
Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 - 1883) Run through plagiarism check In 1851, a middle-aged woman of almost six feet, with a deep speaking voice and an unerring eye for a catchy phrase, got to her feet in the midst of the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. “ I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well!” Sojourner Truth declared to the audience. “And ain't I a woman? I have borne 13 children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried…
According to The Editors of Encyclopedia, Jane Addams was an American Social reformer and pacifist (Encyclopedia, 2017). She was brave. She took a stand for what she felt was right. She stood for social justice, education, equality and more. Jane Addams was also a cowinner of the Nobel Prize of Peace in 1931. “Jane Addams was the one of the most distinguished college-educated women of the first generation” (Jane Addams, 2010). She also won worldwide recognition in the first third of the…
In the speech Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation given by Wilma Mankillers I think she has a lot of valuable points about how she would like to see the Cherokee nation rebuilt, how she wants people to look past stereotypes and see her as the Chief of the Cherokee Nation, and how she describes being able to accomplish all of this. From what I have read about Wilma Mankiller and her background is that she was the first woman to ever lead a major Native America Tribe in the United States of American.…
Many years way before the Woman Suffrage Movement, woman weren’t considered as equal as men we were downgraded. The historical poem & document I chose are when women's rights movement was taking place. The woman suffrage movement began to gather strength In the 1840’s as woman began to fight for equal rights, the woman suffrage movement opened opportunities for women. The poem that I chose talks about women's equality it is called ‘’Ain’t I a women’’. The passage ‘’Ain't I a women’’ it describes…
On July 19th, 1848, the inaugural women’s rights convention in the United States was held in Seneca Falls, New York. This first meeting was essential to the beginning of the Women’s Suffrage Movement and the Equal Rights Amendment. Two weeks after the Seneca Falls Convention a similar, and preponderant meeting was held in Rochester, New York. Multiple conventions similar to these followed annually, these conventions launched the Women's Suffrage Movement. During the years leading up to 1848,…