Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In the American Revolutionary Era, non-consumption and non-importation of British goods, became the two instruments for the American resistance against British taxation without representation. Patriot Women contributed to the non-importation by creating the Homespun Movement. In the Homespun Movement, women spun their own cloth to make clothing, instead of purchasing clothing made of imported British materials. Women played significant roles, by joining the non-consumption movements, by…

organizations, recruited other women with the same interests, and attended conventions to take control over their lives and become more independent. However, because gender and race plays a huge part in politics, woman rights activist like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony faced many struggles through their fight against inequality. Organizations are helpful to communities because they can provide extensive information about certain social and political causes that are taking place.…

1920, women were not allowed to vote, they were expected to focus on their household not politics. Many women accepted how the government was but some abolitionists wanted change.Without the help of women pioneers such as, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Ida B. Wells, the 19th amendment would not have been ratified. Susan B. Anthony, saw that it was wrong for women to not have the same rights as men. When Anthony was thirty two years old, she went to her first…

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton decided to create their own convention to discuss the rights that women should have. This started because at the convention, the women were segregated from the male speakers and were lucky enough that the men would speak on the behalf (FOOTNOTE). They used the Declaration of Independence as their guide and then presented the “Declaration of Sentiments” to the convention, which asked for changes in the way that women should be treated.…

1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The first state to grant women the right to vote Wyoming In 1869. Leaders in the western states and territories argued that granting female suffrage would pull new residents to the West. There was a split in the women's rights until the founding of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1890. It worked for this organization for the benefit of women, and many social, political issues and most famous leaders Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady…

Mary Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton off the bat these commendable woman have one thing in common: wanting equality for woman. Although they each were in different time periods, still they endured unfair treatment as women and wanted change. Change that caused movement and change that made significant differences and in fact unfolded the beginning chapter of feminism. To begin with, Mary Astell advocacy was focused on providing women with equal educational opportunities…

The two ladies that organized the meeting was Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Elizabeth decided to draft a document like that of the Declaration of Independence. It was called the Declaration of Sentiment, Grievances, and Resolutions. This document stated that men and women were created equal and it helped women…

significant in relation to these movements. Women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were prominent figures in these movements. Stanton was an eloquent strategist, orator, philosopher, and publicist of the women’s rights movement. She worked hard to end discrimination against women alongside Susan B. Anthony. As a result, Stanton was the prime mover behind the Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights in 1848. Later on, Stanton wrote her speech/manifesto “Address to the…

country was enjoying a period in which only free men (white, non-slaves) had the right to vote. In consequence, slaves, women and children were not included in the group of voters because they had no political voice. In order to change that, Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, to show the way women were treated in the country.…

appearance to get women working. Women have always seemed to look for progression against their oppression, even now in the 21st century. During the first era of feminism a work entitled “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” was written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. A rendition of the Declaration of Independence to fit the developing world of working women who wanted their independence from men. Flash-forward to modern era were Dave Barry still describes the struggles of women in “Turkeys in…