Constitutional convention

only included women that would protest with force. Their main reasoning was the right to vote. Which was granted to them in 1918 if you were over the age of 30, and then in 1928 if you were over the age of 21. There was a National Women’s Rights Convention held in 1850. It was lead and held by Susan B. Anthony one of…

Today, we take women's suffrage for granted, but back in the 1800's and 1900's it was a big deal. People like Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought their whole lives for the vote, but they never lived to see it happen. The two made petitions and stood up for what they believed in, and now women today can thank them for helping them get the right to vote. The fight for women's suffrage began in the early decades before the Civil War. Women were outraged over the fact that men…

For decades women struggled for the rights to vote along with travel what seemed to be an almost impossible journey to full and equal civil rights as American citizens. Women like Marie Jenney Howe helped pave the way for women to have a chance at achieving that goal. Howe was a member of the newly formed National Women’s Suffrage Association. She was also known for her monolog parody on the Opposition to Women’s Suffrage, created in 1913. Howe wrote and performed this parody because of the…

American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men." Six core issues were also identified and labeled, these are abortion and reproductive health services access, violence against women, constitutional equality, promoting diversity/ending racism, lesbian rights, and economic justice. With clear goals and media coverage steadily rising on the cause, this slingshotted the feminist movement into the mainstream and created a significant…

The Night of Terror was during 1917 November when a group of women were arrested for picketing for their rights at the White House. They were protesting peacefully but were responded to by force and violence. While in the Occoquan Workhouse they were beaten and tortured and denied their basic rights as humans. It was a horrific event that was not justifiable by the the guards of the Occoquan Workhouse who committed this crime. The women that were a part of a group for women's right to vote,…

the community. After a week, those women organize the two- day convention in Seneca, N.Y., to talk about women’s right. On July 13,1848, the Women’s Right Movement marked as a beginning. Throughout 1998, the Women’s Right Movement is celebrated the 150th anniversary around the nation with different programs and events. They also look for a big change to set motion when they bravely agreed to gather the first Women’s Right Convention. Before the Women’s Right Movement, women were not…

"An Age of Reform, 1820-1860." Prentice Hall School. n.p.. Web. 30 Nov 2015. This secondary resource gave us some historical context about the time of the Seneca Falls Convention. It also gave us a brief explanation of why women joined the Women's Rights Movement. Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn. "Women's Rights Movement." Scholastic. Scholastic Inc., n.d. Web. 30 Nov 2015. This source included information about the Women's Rights Movement, the birth of the movement, and the fight for the 19th…

The women’s suffrage movement took place during the 1900’s, at a time when sexism and racism were extremely prominent.. Women such as Sojourner Truth took a stand against the unfair treatment they received. Truth gave a speech in 1851 to a large crowd of men and women about why women such as herself deserved the same treatment as men. Throughout her speech, she gave examples from her life, comparing herself and her own personal hardships to those of men. In her speech, “Ain’t I A Woman,”…

people attended the convention; two-thirds of the attendees were women, the other one-third were men. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”_by:stanton Among the resolutions set forth in Stanton’s “Declaration” was the goal of achieving the “sacred right of franchise.” In the year of 1848 the first women's right gathering in the United States was on July 19-20. It was held at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New york. The convention was called…

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