Seneca Falls Convention

were the first to gain rights to the elective franchise. 300 years past Shakespeare’s time, women were finally granted the right to vote; therefore, women living in the same era as Shakespeare would not have had a niche in politics. At the Seneca Falls Convention in New York in July 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered “The Declaration of Sentiments,” in which she stated about men, “He has never permitted her to exercise…

excluded from men’s unions to join her in the fight for labor equality. She was a delegate to the National Labor Congress in 1868, where she persuaded the female labor committee to vote for women’s “equal pay for equal work.” Although the men at the convention ended up disregarding the vote, they still had the empowerment to go through with the…

“Who opposed Women Suffrage?” “The main burden of their argument as that women suffrage placed an additional and unbearable burden on women, whose place was at the home” (Flexner 288) The irony of this comment was that women during these days had slaves to do all the work for them. Leaving women with nothing much to do, but prepare themselves to look pretty for the men and raise children. Most of the women that were in the organizations were women of wealth and high status, they had all…

self-evident: that all men and women are created equal” (Stanton). Elizabeth was born in New York on November 12, 1815, a time when women were not equal to men. Stanton went on to become a powerful women’s right suffragist who organized the first convention in the United States for women’s rights. Elizabeth died in October 1902, and after her death women finally gained more rights (Sochen). Stanton had hope that one day men would treat women as their equals. Elizabeth shows the characteristic of…

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”(Margaret Mead) There have been many protests, riots, and revolutions all over the world from ancient eras to our modern day. Each one of those has made the world what it is today. One of the most important protests was the feminist movement .Feminism is the advocacy of women 's rights to the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. The feminist…

The fight for women’s suffrage had been a long winded and grueling battle, but on August 26, 1920 women finally got the vote, 70 years after the Seneca Falls Convention, the Nineteenth Amendment stated, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged… on account of sex.” However, African American women were unfortunately still largely disenfranchised. Nonetheless, before women were enfranchised they undertook several political reforms such as birth control and…

civic intelligence that was influenced by her father’s profession as lawyer. When she was young, Stanton admired her cousin Garret Smith an abolitionist and eventually followed her footsteps in adulthood where she attended variety of antislavery conventions and campaigned for women’s economic rights on a legislative level. Nonetheless, Stanton sought for a dramatic change in her life and her prayers were answered in 1851, when she met fellow activist Susan B. Anthony. The two became inseparable…

significant events). Elizabeth was one of the first leaders of the women’s rights movement and she wrote the Declaration of Sentiments which was based on female equality. In July 1848 Elizabeth Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and many other women held the Seneca Falls Convention and this is where the Declaration of Sentiments began. This entire movement was where they fought for women to have the right to vote and the right where they promoted women’s rights, such as divorce. Elizabeth later called for…

movements. 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…

treated as if they were beneath men. For centuries, women have been treated as the underdog. They always were treated like the outcast. When she wrote the Declaration of Sentiment’s she presented it in front of participants from the first women’s convention. It was also presented around the same time as the Declaration of Independence but was also adopted by congress. The selection was mainly stating the position of the Declaration of Sentiments varies…