Seneca the Younger

The history of The Women’s Right started with a group of woman questioning why they been treated like animals and why they can’t involve in any activities of the community. After a week, those women organize the two- day convention in Seneca, N.Y., to talk about women’s right. On July 13,1848, the Women’s Right Movement marked as a beginning. Throughout 1998, the Women’s Right Movement is celebrated the 150th anniversary around the nation with different programs and events. They also look for a…

"An Age of Reform, 1820-1860." Prentice Hall School. n.p.. Web. 30 Nov 2015. This secondary resource gave us some historical context about the time of the Seneca Falls Convention. It also gave us a brief explanation of why women joined the Women's Rights Movement. Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn. "Women's Rights Movement." Scholastic. Scholastic Inc., n.d. Web. 30 Nov 2015. This source included information about the Women's Rights Movement, the birth of the movement, and the fight for the 19th…

The women’s suffrage movement took place during the 1900’s, at a time when sexism and racism were extremely prominent.. Women such as Sojourner Truth took a stand against the unfair treatment they received. Truth gave a speech in 1851 to a large crowd of men and women about why women such as herself deserved the same treatment as men. Throughout her speech, she gave examples from her life, comparing herself and her own personal hardships to those of men. In her speech, “Ain’t I A Woman,”…

1848, 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…

unlike her husband, she was not allowed to participate. The treatment of women abolitionists at the convention made Stanton and her new friend Lucretia Mott decide to organize their own convention, this time, in the United States. On July 19, 1848, Seneca Fall Convention – the first public meeting about women’s rights in the US, was opened. In preparation for convention, the Declaration of Sentiments – a document that detailed beliefs about social injustice toward women, was…

believe she 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…

Terry Luteri History George Kepple March 2017 WCTU The WCTU,(the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union) was the first large scale movement by women, according to their web site. Yes, they are still around and active. They were “organized by women who were concerned about the destructive power of alcohol and the problems it was causing their families and society.” They were founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in November, 1874. It came out of a Woman’s Crusade in the winter of 1873-1874, in Freedom, New…

John Stewart Mill believed that the institution of the family was very corrupt because it was based on subordination and suppression of women. He believed that letting women vote would promote social strength and a moral regeneration (Document 1). Female political activist also fought for women’s rights by saying that, if women are nearly half of the population, excluding them from voting was a complete contradiction to the idea of universal suffrage (Document 2). Continuing with the idea of…

Lucretia became an advocate for women’s rights after being refused “a seat in 1840 at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London” because she was a woman. She aided Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others in organizing the Seneca Falls convention and was later “elected president of the group in 1852” . Later on Lucretia suffered from extreme stomach problems, however she did not let that gt in the way of her work. She was very determined and set on fighting for women’s rights…

At this very convention, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and together they would organize the First Woman’s Rights Convention, of many, in Seneca Falls, New York. The Seneca Falls Convention sparked the Women’s Rights movement in the United States by being the first of its kind, the influential attendees and…