National Convention

planned the first women's rights convention which took place in Seneca Falls, New . YorkDuring the preparation for this event, Elizabeth Caddy Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments using the framework of the declaration of independence. This outlined the areas of life where women were treated unjustly such as…

In working for rights of women, she started a whole new idea that women can be independent. However, she was not alone in this social reform, she had the help of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Staton was a great help to Anthony with the creation of the National…

brought about by Elizabeth Cady Stanton A. Summoned the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls along with Lucretia Mott 1. Monotonous life as a housewife a. Spent more time with society b. Injustices present at the time were explicated 2. Met with Lucretia Mott a. Both had same views about the injustices found in society b. Planned the women’s rights convention to address those issues 3. Great success with convention resulted in it becoming a regular means of aid to attain goals B.…

‘The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality”-Elizabeth Cady Stanton.I am Elizabeth Cady Stanton. I was born on November 12, 1815. I passed away on October 26, 1902. I graduated from Johnstown Academy. The college I graduated form was from Emma Willard School in 1832..I have a husband named Henry Brewster Stanton. We got married on May 1, 1840. We have 7 children. Daniel Cady Stanton, Henry Brewster Stanton, Gerrit Smith Stanton, Theodore Weld Stanton, Margaret…

Lucy Stone, and Ida B. Wells, the 19th amendment would not have been ratified. Susan B. Anthony, saw that it was wrong for women to not have the same rights as men. When Anthony was thirty two years old, she went to her first woman's rights convention in Syracuse. Once Susan left she declared "that the right which woman needed above every other, the one indeed which would secure to her all the others, was the right of suffrage.” After that she spent the rest of her life fighting for the…

American history. Elizabeth was a women’s right activist, feminist, editor, and writer. She was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association for 20 years and also worked with Susan B. Anthony during that time. She graduated from Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary in 1832 and married to a reformer named Henry Stanton in 1840 and they went at once to the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London. They had seven children and eventually settled in Seneca Falls, New York. She became aware…

rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, NY and lasted until the passing of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote. The Seneca Falls Convention was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who is regarded as one the early leaders of the women rights movement. At the convention Stanton “read a ‘Declaration of Sentiments,’ which in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence declared that ‘all men and women are created equal” (Kennedy Cohen Bailey 332). The convention…

The Seneca falls convention opened the eye of many women on how men had all the rights unlike women who had slim to none. Before the Convention, women were denied many opportunities for instance, the right to vote, education, and were basically treated like property. Leading this convention there were five very strong figures who influenced the beginning of a revolution called the Women’s Right Movement. Therefore, the Women’s Convection at Seneca falls was what set the chain of events that led…

upon women to petition for their rights. Altogether, twelve resolutions were passed and signed by the people at the convention. The ninth amendment to the Declaration of Sentiments was the only heavily debated amendment by the men and women. It was the amendment that demanded the women’s right to vote. Altogether, twelve resolutions were passed and signed by the people at the convention. 68 women and 32 men signed the Declaration of…

though this was a huge issue here in the United States, it was also an issue in other countries such as Canada, United Kingdom, and many other countries located in Europe. Together Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton became founders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1869. This organization was created when the women's rights movement split into two groups over the support for African American men. The 15th amendment granted African American men the right to…