Lucretia Mott

There are roughly four thousand two hundred religions in the world. These include Universalizing Religions such as Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, along with Ethnic Religions such as Hinduism and Chinese Religions. Universalizing Religions tend to have large followings. In fact, Christianity has 2.2 billion adherents, making it the largest religion in the world. However, not all Christians believe the same thing. This is apparent in the different branches, Roman Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and…

along with the idea of equality, caused some women to feel like they were being treated unfairly, which caused them to found the woman's suffrage movement. However, the movement did not actually start until the year 1848, when two reformers named Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton called a woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, where one of the reformers lived. This was one of the first public appeals for woman suffrage. Another show of wanting woman equality came in the year…

There has been racism since America can remember and it all started in the 1800's back when white people had colored people as slaves. Racism back in the 1900's it was hard for colored people to get well paid jobs and most of all in the 1960's colored people would be born in Jim crow hospitals for parents who lived in a ghetto, the children going toJim crow schools where theyprobablydon't have the enough education to go tocollage, and even the churches had to besegregated because if they don't…

The 1800s was not a time period where all Americans were equal. White males held more rights than any other race and gender. To protest against unjust treatment, abolitionists, African Americans, women, and those who wanted to see a change in society and better treatment of all people, organized reform movements to bring awareness to certain issues. During the Second Great Awakening in the 19th century, the reform movements brought about major change for marginalized groups of people. The…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a known women's rights activist. She paved the way for the women of america, and still makes a impact on the world today. She started in a family who didn’t really value women’s opinions, and went on to co-author of the amendment that single-handedly is responsible for the rights women have today. Elizabeth cady Stanton is an example of a modern working mother and wife, in a time when those to occupations weren’t accepted. Born on November 12, 1815, in Eastern New York…

rights as men. Before all of this, there was a group of women activists that held a meeting about womens rights. It was located in New York in the city of Seneca Falls in 1848. The two women that held the meeting were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Most all the peole there belived one thing and that one thing was “We hold these truths to be self-evident and that all men and women are created…

Seneca Falls: A Time for Irreverence Movements rarely have a singular origin; nonetheless, a breakthrough in women’s rights was reached in the small town of Seneca Falls, New York back in 1848. Abolitionism, the revolution to end slavery, was well underway. Among the abolitionist, were women who emphatically attended meetings and conventions to forward the cause; however, their contributions were often discredited as they were denied seating and voting rights (Lerner 4). This disenfranchisement…

The convention was spearheaded by two American activists named Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, women who were active abolitionists as well as women’s rights supporters. The inspiration for the convention came from an incident during which Mott had been refused the right to speak at the World Anti-Slavery convention in London, despite the fact that she was an official delegate. At the Seneca Falls convention, the…

Women felt that they were being taken for granted and deserved a respectable place in society. This wave began with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 in a chapel in Seneca Falls, New York. Inspired and guided by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, almost three hundred people were in attendance. Both women had met earlier at an anti-slavery convention and were refused seats because of their sex. Frederick Douglass, a notable attendee, was known for being an abolitionist…

In the 1840 Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where, unlike her husband, she was not allowed to participate. The treatment of women abolitionists at the convention made Stanton and her new friend Lucretia Mott decide to organize their own convention, this time, in the United States. On July 19, 1848, Seneca Fall Convention – the first public meeting about women’s rights in the US, was opened. In preparation for convention, the Declaration of…