Lucretia Mott

They became friends and discussed the issues of slavery and women’s rights. Both of them decided to hold a convention to talk about women’s rights once they got back to the United States. Eight years later, after writing back and forth to each other, Mott told Stanton that she was coming to Seneca Falls to visit her sister (3). Stanton invited her over for tea. The two discussed the same things they did at the convention, including how limited they felt as women. They decided to invite people…

From 1848 to 1920 thousands of women in the United States fought to attain the same civil and political status as men, including the all important right to vote.They had a lot working against them victorian era scientists argued that women were by nature inferior to men, even claiming that the shape and size of female skulls were evidence of their weaker brainpower. Sadly early women's rights activists such as elizabeth cady stanton and susan b anthony would die before they could see their end…

down upon by many, mostly the men and government officials who were not seeing eye to eye with the women. In the Declaration of Sentiments it states, “Women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and deprived of their most sacred rights” (Stanton & Mott 3). These innocent ladies were suffering under the government and this was being done to them for no apparent reason. In 1848 there was still slavery in the U.S., and the equality among the people was not in sight. A few years later, the…

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…