Lucretia Mott

The Seneca Falls Convention was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and other influential women. The purpose of this convention was to increase the amount of support for the women’s suffrage movement. It was the starting point for women’s suffrage in the U.S., and it motivated women to learn the skills needed…

When people learn that someone has been to prison, they normally assume that the person is immoral, but what if the law that had been broken was immoral? Ideally, a law’s purpose is to keep order and ensure the rights of citizens, but at what point does that law stop protecting the rights of individuals and start being punitive for punishment’s sake? One such group on the receiving end of some of these laws is women. While granting equal rights to women may seem like the obvious choice, many…

liberties, it did not extend its ideas to all living in the United States. Years later in 1848, abolitionist and prominent figure in the women’s rights movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, created the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments with the help of Lucretia…

Mary Wollstonecraft: Mother of Feminism Mary Wollstonecraft raised the question in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, “If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?” (Chap. III. Para. 34). She notes that women were taught to rely solely upon men for their livelihood, and to submit to their ideas, but she question is where it stops. In the 1700s, the education and social…

There have been many movements in the large span of America’s existence, but arguably three of the most impactful movements included the grassroots African American Civil Rights Movement, Feminism, and the grassroots Chicana/o Movement. These movements changed the way that America viewed the Constitution and Bill of Rights through different means such as peaceful and violent protests, forming activist groups, and fighting discrimination in court. By using different tactics, they each helped to…

The women’s movement goes so much further than treating a female as though she is no longer just a figment of someone’s sexual representation of her in one’s brain. To get to the point where we are in modern society has been a struggle. A struggle that so many strong men and women have worked towards; some never even getting the chance to see the fruit that had grown from the tree that they had planted. In present day, the definition of a women varies depending on who you talk to and what…

Suffrage means to have the right to vote in political elections. The concept was an ideal means for women throughout history, especially for women between late 1700’s and early 1900’s. Women suffrage had long been publicized to society since the 1700’s by Mary Wollstonecraft in 1792 (Scholastics), and many other events or activities, led to the ratification of the 19th amendment. At the same time, the right for African Americans suffrage was also an approach. Through many generations of African…

The Continued Fight of Feminism in the 1930s-1950s: Housewives in Theory, Not in Action The period between what is thought of as the first and second waves of feminism popularly shows women as happy housewives, which might seem odd since suffrage was just granted and women should want to use their new political power to expand their roles, yet the expansion of women’s rights does not happen again until the 1960s. So what caused this change from a strong suffragette to a delicate housewife? To…

Question 1 The westward movement of great population of America occurred in the beginning of the nineteenth century and as a result of it the statehood of Tennessee, Vermont, Ohio and Kentucky were made part of the huge American territory. Moreover, the Louisiana Purchase which took place in the history of America doubled the size of the American territory by expansions and explorations to new regions. As soon as the 1812 War ended, the expansion began at its peak. The U.S. federal government…

Until the mid-eighteenth century the role of a woman was to live cast behind the shadows of her husband. Without complaining, she was expected to take care of the children, cook, clean, and adhere to any wishes her husband desired. However, because of the constant reinforcement of this stereotype, many women began to feel constrained, leading them to question what was their role in society. This anger and frustration later became known as the campaign towards the “Early Women’s Rights Movement.”…