Philadelphia Convention

When MDMA is mentioned, people automatically think “party drug”. Although that may be true in many cases, MDMA is also used therapeutically. Methylenedioxy-N-methamphetamine, also known as Ecstasy, is a phenethylamine that includes mescaline and methamphetamine (Bouso, Doblin, Farré, and Alcázar 2008). According to Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary (2012), “MDMA was first synthesized for use as an appetite suppressant, but because of its high incidence of severe side effects it was never…

Stanton was an eloquent strategist, orator, philosopher, and publicist of the women’s rights movement. She worked hard to end discrimination against women alongside Susan B. Anthony. As a result, Stanton was the prime mover behind the Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights in 1848. Later on, Stanton wrote her speech/manifesto “Address to the Legislature of New York on Women’s Rights” in 1854 to demonstrate that men and women should be treated as equals. Her speech was essential to improve…

Throughout the nineteenth century, slavery formed the social economic and political back bone of the United States. It was against this opposition that the abolitionists consisting of men, women, black and white sought the immediate end of slavery. Amongst the radical minority, the abolitionists, were those who were a part of the women’s right’s movement. In the antebellum era, many African American men and women became active abolitionist and supporters of women’s rights. Looking at the United…

Florence Kelley delivered a speech to the North American Woman Suffrage Association on July 22, 1905. During this time period, woman strived for enfranchisement since they had very few rights, especially the right to vote. Without the right to vote they could not help their children at the time who were being treated inhumanely. These children had varying ages from 6 to 16 and they were working for 12 hours or even more. Without child labor laws this was going on in the states without much…

In 1872, after being arrested for voting in the presidential election two weeks earlier, Susan B. Anthony delivers a speech where she defends her previous actions and argues for women’s right to vote in the United States. Susan B. Anthony emphasizes on an appeal to ethos in her speech, “On Women’s Right to Vote,” in order to create credibility and efficacy in her claims. Prior to the events leading up to her speech, Anthony already built a reputation for being a strong advocate of both the…

It was a crisp day in Seneca Falls, New York, hearts of ambition and excitement gathered together to discuss a long-lost cause in the American system, women’s rights. Well known reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott openly invited abolition activist, which included a large majority of women (including Susan B. Anthony) and a partial amount of men. The motivation leading to this meeting had been stirred from generations of women having little to no opportunities socially,…

Woman’s Suffrage In the early 1800’s woman were viewed as second-class citizens. They were not allowed to vote, own property, or pursue an education. Once married, a woman was almost non-existent. A man and woman were considered one according to the law. Married woman were not allowed to own property, collect inheritance, or even considered a guardian to their children. Woman fought for 70 years to change the world’s views about woman and to gain the right to vote. Woman’s Suffrage…

This convention took place in England and when the men delegates voted to prohibit women from continuing in participating in the events, these two women became allies. These two women then suggested they should have a convention in America that discussed the rights of women. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton then later added Jane Hunt, Mary Anne McClintock, and…

meeting on July 19th at Seneca Falls in New York, abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony planned meetings to work on getting more rights for women (“The women 's rights movement”). After a significant amount of fighting and convention after convention to try and gain rights, they came up with a solution, this solution was Amendment 19. This Amendment would give women more rights that men have and the expectations that everyone would expect of women (“Passage of the 19th…

During WWI poisonous gas was used to break through the front lines, this caused people to die, and live the rest of their lives with health problems like blindness, lung problems, mental issues, or heart problems. During WWII Adolf Hitler set jews in gas chambers. Gas chambers were described as rooms that were airtight in which tons of jews were forced into to be murdered. These chambers then released tons of toxins thus suffocating the jews leaving them to die due to the poisonous gas in the…