Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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    because it was a movement that fought for the equality of women. This movement fought for the right for women to vote. Women were encouraged to fight for their own democratic ideals. Many famous suffragists fought for women rights and equality. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, creation of democratic rights for women (Document I). The abolitionism of slavery was being introduced and it supported democratic ideals because it created equality among…

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    amendment. She taught young boys and girls that they are both equal. The law back then was no women were allowed to vote. Susan B. Anthony thought that was wrong and voted. She started believing that all women and men are equal. She then met Elizabeth Cady Stanton and they started The National Woman Suffrage Association. Susan B. Anthony died in 1906 and never got to see her goal come true. The Road Not Taken was about choice. The traveler had to choose between two sides of the road and one…

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    CONCLUSION “She was a light in the age in which she lived. After three years incessant labour she obtained from the Legislature of New York in the year 1818 the first law, ever Enacted, in any country which gives to married women rights Over their children and property. This law has since been amended and adopted by most of the states of the Union. Women call her Blessed. Eunice Chapman was a feminist before her time: she just didn’t know the term. The definition of feminism is “Belief in…

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    With the civil war approaching, various group sought to perfect and reform society, each with different goals and backgrounds. By creating this reform, groups hoped to expand their liberty and freedoms they enjoyed in this time period. Through this goal of cleansing, certain groups; such as, the women’s movement and the abolitionist’s movement, built each other up in order to benefit them both. The women’s movement and the abolitionist’s movement were intertwined in the way that many woman…

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    of Seneca Falls” will immediately know that Lisa’s entire purpose for writing this book is to inform the reader of the truth of the Seneca Falls convention and the women’s suffrage movement. As a feminist, she knows that our two heroines, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony created…

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    vote. However, in 1777, that right was rescinded, and a one hundred and thirteen-year struggle for enfranchisement began. The Suffrage Movement and the fight for women’s rights attracted many activists. At the forefront, Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Lucy Burns, Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, Lucretia Mott, Alice Paul, Lucy Stone, and Ida B Wells-Barnett to name a few. The activist established groups, National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), American Woman Suffrage…

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    rights as its male citizens when it was first founded, and those who opposed the rights of women were more than often violent, and would jail, abuse, and taunt the supporters. By 1848, the fight for women’s rights went national. Abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first convention addressing women’s rights in…

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    Some of the problems with Women’s Rights were that they fought for suffrage. Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were the the first two women to fight for women suffrage. NAWSA helped the women push for suffrage which were the women's right to vote. NAWSA helped President Wilson to get the suffrage law passed. Some of the solutions with women’s…

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    of equality. Society heavily benefitted from her because she made history with her countless campaigns to protest inequality. She empowered so many others to assist with her journey for equality. From the point in her life where she first met Elizabeth Stanton, to when she was indicted for voting illegally she influenced the lives of every woman interested in a reform for women’s…

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    not stopped by any organization in America. Majority of what the women in the social gospel strived for, improved the nation. The women that would be credited for most of the reformation, are, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Anne Knight, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Angelina Grimke and Sarah Moore Grimke. As Susan B. Anthony once said, “I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my…

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