Elizabeth Cady Stanton

From this point on, Stanton and Anthony began to work as a team of activists. While getting to know one another, they realized that no woman would ever be taken serious in the act of politics unless something were to change. At first they had the idea to fight for women’s right to vote, but why settle for just one thing. That’s when the movement for Women’s rights began. While fighting for women’s right’s Anthony and Stanton formed a group called the New York State Woman’s…

Her mother was, “an imposing, dominant and vivacious figure who controlled the Cady household with a firm hand,"(USNPS) and helped shape Elizabeth’s strong female presence. Elizabeth was a precocious and inquisitive child who learned to read early. Her father was a lawyer who allowed and encouraged the use of his large library. In her early twenties, Elizabeth married Henry Brewster Stanton, an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. Their honeymoon was in London, at the World’s…

the six central women (Eleanor Vincent, Lydia Williams, Lydia Osborn, Susan Ormsby, Amy Ormsby, and Anna Bishop) portrayed in the book are left out of almost all other retellings of women’s history in favor of more famous figures, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. These six ordinary women organized a meeting in Albany to discuss women’s rights and place in society before the famous Seneca Falls Convention, which is often marked as the first convention to discuss women’s rights in…

eventually led to independence. In the speech from the Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she uses these rights of freedom to announce her opinion about rights specifically for women and to persuade others that women need more fair rights. These speeches have…

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…

It was a crisp day in Seneca Falls, New York, hearts of ambition and excitement gathered together to discuss a long-lost cause in the American system, women’s rights. Well known reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott openly invited abolition activist, which included a large majority of women (including Susan B. Anthony) and a partial amount of men. The motivation leading to this meeting had been stirred from generations of women having little to no opportunities socially,…

Resolutions”: A Stance on Suffrage The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 is marked as the official start of the suffrage movement in the United States. In a chapel holding roughly two hundred women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton makes a stance with her speech “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution” (Burns). Stanton makes bold statements in this piece about inequality and the oppressment of women by a government where men solely held office and calls for radical change. Stanton’s choices in structure,…

The United States was founded on key aspects to a create a strong, centralized democratic goverment: freedom and equality. In fact, one of the nations famous quotes, "Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness" complements the nations democracy as a whole. While America was just a newly developed country, it was evident to citizens that changes were necessary. Between the years of 1825-1850, a reformational period embodied America. Whether or not these reforms sought to expand democratic ideals was…

with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She wanted women to have equal rights as men. Lucretia Mott had so many speeches. “Sermons of Medical Students” and “Discourse on women's” are some of her speech she published. Lucretia Mott was an abolitionist, who wanted to end slavery on the United States.…

Society has mostly been ruled by a paternalistic hierarchy. Condemning men as the one with the higher status and more power women were usually neglected, oppressed and abused. In past decades, women were viewed as fragile while men were view as invincible. While men were seen as the breadwinner, women were expected to stay at home and attend essentially to the needs of their families. Women were not considerate into decision making, especially in settings that involved power, such as politics…