Lucretia Mott

“She refused to be bored, chiefly because she wasn’t boring.” (The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald). Nicknamed “the first American Flapper”, Zelda Fitzgerald was a social icon that helped kickstart the change in how women participated in the new American society. After the war, there was a big time of change for women and how they could live life more freely. They were given the right to vote provided by the 19th Amendment, the idea of “the new woman” was common, and there was a shift in…

The author of the novel Hobomok, Lydia Maria Child, was ahead of her time, and full of abolitionist and feminist views opinions in the 19th Century. Child was born in 1802 in Medford, Massachusetts into an abolitionist family and was highly influenced by her older brother, an Unitarian clergyman and professor at Harvard University. Child later in her life wrote her first published piece, The Frugal Housewife in 1829, an instruction manual and advice book for stay at home wives and mothers who…

Section one of the amendment states that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Section two states that Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Lastly, section 3 states that this amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification. The women’s rights movement began as the women’s suffrage movement in the mid 1800’s. The idea of woman…

The antebellum period saw several reform movements take place. There were movements for temperance, public school reform, abolition of slavery, women’s rights and dealing with poverty, crime and the mentally ill. The various reform movements that took place during this time achieved varying levels of success. The temperance movement initially began with a goal to reduce the alcohol consumption of Americans. This changed when Lyman Beecher condemned any use of alcohol at all. Evangelical…

Social categories in present day America derived from the colonial past. The concepts of race, religion and class have been historically used for classifying people and groups. These types of classifications cause controversy amongst many different people. Racial categories are solely social and political, never predetermined or biological. Racial formation is often used to describe social structure. Racial classes are symbolized and portrayed in imagery, media, concepts, language, and…

"The Danger of a Single Story:" Limiting Women 's Past, Present, & Future: "Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person." In her TED talk "The Danger of a Single Story," author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes the racial and socioeconomic stereotypes that create a "single story" or dominant narrative of peoples ' lives and obscure other possible stories. She focuses mainly on single stories created because of racial…

The Progressive Era was a time in United States history when big changes were beginning to occur all over. Major campaigns began that focused on reforms such as temperance, abolition, women 's rights, and asylum and prison reformation. Because of great pioneers that took the time to make a difference, our country is so much better and stronger. What is reform? Reform is to make changes in something in order to improve it. Every individual that was involved in the reformation era had one thing in…

In the year 1819, there was a balance of power within the nation because there were exactly 11 free states and 11 slave states. Missouri, however, wanted statehood, which created problems because that would make the balance of power unequal. James Tallmadge, Jr. proposed what came to be known as the “Tallmadge Amendment,” which disallowed slaves’ owners from bringing new ones into Missouri, and also allowed children of slaves to be freed when they turned 25. This was approved by the…

honeymoon was in London, at the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention. It was there that she strengthened her alliances and ideas about equal rights for not only the slave, but women. She began speaking at conventions with other advocates for equality like Lucretia Mott, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Susan B. Anthony. They organized the first Woman’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York. At this meeting her speech, “The Declaration of Sentiments offered a systematic statement of the sexual…

for women's rights dates from the Enlightenment; one of the first important expressions of the movement was Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, convened by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and others, called for full legal equality with men, including full educational opportunity and equal compensation; thereafter the woman suffrage movement began to gather momentum. It faced particularly stiff resistance in the United…