Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Women Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped start the begging of women’s rights. She and many other women, did many things so men and women could be equal. The articles, The Birthplace of Women’s Rights and A Powerful Partnership, both state what Elizabeth Cady Stanton did with other women and herself alone. The Birthplace of Women’s Rights-Elizabeth Did It Alone This article, talks and explains more information about what Elizabeth Cady Stanton did to help women’s…

rights of women, she started a whole new idea that women can be independent. However, she was not alone in this social reform, she had the help of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Staton was a great help to Anthony with the creation of the National…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, described in Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life By Lori D. Ginzberg, was an argumentative, stubborn, determined, independent, and impatient activist who could not be told otherwise of what she thought. She demanded women 's rights and had very strong opinions on women 's place in politics, society, and marriage which she fought for throughout seventy years of her lifetime. With her large personality, she was never afraid to stick up for her beliefs and opinions.…

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,…

names and support, now only the anti-slavery newspaper maintain to write articles in favor of women’s rights. In 1851, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton first met at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio and begin their fifty-year partnership working for women’s rights and suffrage. On May 10th, 1866, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony establish the American Equal Rights Association. On July 28, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment was approved and…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, 1815 in Johnston, New York. She was the eighth out of eleven children born to Margaret Livingston and Daniel Cady. Five of which whom died at birth or early childhood. Stanton’s father was a Federalist Attorney who served one term in Congress, became a circuit court judge, and was appointed to the New York Supreme Court in 1847. Margaret was descended from Dutch settlers—her father, Colonel James Livingston, was an officer in the Continental Army…

Women’s Rights Many historians mark the beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement on July 13, 1848. It all began with a tea party when Elizabeth Cady Stanton was invited to have tea with four of her women friends. During the course of the tea party, she expressed her concern with the way women were treated in this “New America.” Within two days of this conversation, Stanton and the other four women picked out a day to hold a convention. This date was July 19 and July 20 ,1848 and it was to take…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. ” These are the words of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at the Seneca Falls Convention, when she read the Declaration of Sentiments. This document marked the beginning of women’s rights. Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments because she wanted equality for women. That Convention held in the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls on the 19th and 20th of July, 1848 discussed the social, civil and religious condition, and…

July 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered “The Declaration of Sentiments,” in which she stated about men, “He has never permitted her to exercise…

Upon arrival, however, they were told they had to sit separately from the men and could not speak. The women were outraged. A conversation was held between Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton while in this segregated women 's section about organizing a meeting concerning women 's rights back home. It wasn 't until a meeting with her sister, Martha Coffin Wright, that their ideas were put into action, to officially organize Seneca…