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    Declaration Of Sentiments

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    America, the Declaration of sentiments was made famous and quiet convincing at the first Woman's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, on 19 and 20 July 1848. 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…

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    Cady Stanton. Additionally, places like Seneca Falls, New York are tagged as the birthplace of the Women’s Rights Movement in America. In The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898, Lisa Tetrault aims to uncover the mythological narrative constructed around the Seneca Falls Convention, as well as disclosing the factual complexities of the suffrage movement. Tetrault further examines the elements of the myth of Seneca Falls. The myth places Elizabeth Cady…

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    has made an impact from what happened between 1848-1920: The Seneca falls Convention, The Civil War, WWI, National American Woman suffrage Association, and The 19th Amendment. All these events led to the revolution of women rights and achieved the right to vote. The very first women’s rights convention in the United States was the Seneca Falls convention. A group of women were in the abolition and temperance movements held this convention in 1848, intending to call attention to unfair…

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    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…

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    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.…

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    felt that historical day in the fight for women's rights. The Seneca Falls Convention was the first step undertaken to gain rights for women. The nineteenth amendment took a lengthy time to…

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    Elizabeth assembled the Woman's Rights Movement with the help of Lucretia Mott and Lucy Stone with the goal of creating a convention for all the women struggling within this society. Today, this convention is known as the Seneca Falls Convention, as it took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848. At the convention Elizabeth produced a constitution for the convention, which is known as the Declaration of Sentiments. The Declaration of Sentiments was inspired by the Declaration of…

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    in Seneca Falls,New York. About 100 people attended the convention; two-thirds of the attendees were women, the other one-third were men. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”_by:stanton Among the resolutions set forth in Stanton’s “Declaration” was the goal of achieving the “sacred right of franchise.” In the year of 1848 the first women's right gathering in the United States was on July 19-20. It was held at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls,…

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    expressed her concern with the way women were treated in this “New America.” Within two days of this conversation, Stanton and the other four women picked out a day to hold a convention. This date was July 19 and July 20 ,1848 and it was to take place at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls. The name it went under was “A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman.” This is what set of the well known Women's Rights Movement. From this date it was put in the…

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    movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a writer, editor, feminist, and Women 's rights activist. The two of them, Stanton and Anthony, did a plethora of work together, but what really sets Stanton above Anthony is her work with the Seneca Falls Convention. The motive for the convention happened in 1940 when Stanton was at the World Anti-Slavery…

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