Lucretia Mott

One in particular have been the Seneca Falls convention which was arguably the beginning of the journey towards women’s equal rights. On July 19th, 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York almost 200 women attended a conference organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to “discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women.” (History) At this conference the “Declaration of Sentiments” was created. This was a revision of the Declaration of Independence that included…

drew her inspiration from great figures like Fredrick Douglas and Mary Wollstonecraft and was supported by other revolutionary peers including Sojourner Truth. With the help of fellow great Suffragettes such as Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone and Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton laid the foundation for the equality of women and the right to vote in the United states.…

from the 1920s that is taken for granted today is the 19th amendment. Just over fifty years before, the right to vote was extended for all men by the ratification of the 15th amendment. Women’s suffrage leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott rallied together to gain full rights as American citizens. These women believed that the constitutional right to vote should be extended to all women, as well as all men. It is important to remember Alice Paul a women’s suffragist leader…

In our new world men and women are treated equal and have the same rights, but it hasn’t always been this way. Women have struggled to work their way up in order to receive recognition as to having the same rights as men. Certain rights, are of great importance since it empowers someone of such ability or freedom, such as the right to vote. This right allowed women to have a role in public society and have a say on who will represent their Legal forums. In the nineteenth century, to occupy a…

mentally ill, all of which changed how the United States is as a country. Women, like Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, realized that they were not given the same rights as white men. To start, few women in America in the 1800’s could vote, sit on juries, or hold public office. Also, married women’s earned and inherited wages and property were the husbands’, and divorced women lost rights of their children. Mott and Stanton wanted women to receive the same rights and freedoms as men,…

's right movement. The abolitionist movement led by William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, raised the consciousness of the citizens of the North. This movement also benefited for the participation of many important women activists such as Lucretia…

The Declaration of Sentiments, document drafting and design the rights that American women should be permit to as citizens, that arosed from the Seneca Falls Convention in New York in July 1848. “Three days before the convention, feminists Lucretia Mott, Martha C. Wright, Elizabeth…

Susan B. Anthony was an avid fighter for the rights of women during a time period where she could have been ridiculed for this. During Miss Anthony 's speech “The Power of the Ballot” she said, “I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.” To end her speech, Susan used that quote to challenge the social ideas of the audience that women are people. This was not the only speech in which she challenged…

The Women’s Rights Movement that occurred in the U.S during the 19th century was a period in which people were questioning why human lives were being unfairly constricted. There were many people, women especially, that were discontent with the limitations placed upon them under America’s new democracy. The simple fact that women had not gained freedom even after the American Revolution although they’d taken tremendous risks proved to upset many women. Some began to agree that the new republic…

American history. B) The Equal Rights for Women reform helped give women almost the same rights as men including being able to own property, vote, speak in public, and much more. If our earliest reformers for women’s rights like Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott did not stand up for this unjust treatment, C) to this day less than half…