Seneca the Younger

Susan B. Anthony started with abolitionism since the age at 16. She was part of Underground Railroad jointly with Harriet Tubman. Jointly with Stanton she refused to support the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments that enfranchisement black man but not women. Her public activities for women’s suffrage were conducted jointly with that of Stanton. Both they were internationally very active particularly in Europe, meeting with activist of European women’s movements. Her advantage over Stanton was…

In The Argument Culture, Deborah Tannen writes about how arguing is negatively impacting people’s spirits. However, without debates and argument the United States (US) would not have come as far as it has today, and would cause people to be accused of a fallacious wrong-doing. The argument culture and unending debates might seem to have a negative effect, but can actually be beneficial to the well-being of people. Argument has caused the US to move forward as a country without destroying our…

On 1873 Susan B. Anthony wrote a speech. In the speech “On Women’s Right to Vote” Anthony is trying to ask the people to prove woman’s deserve it. When she was beginning the speech she was explaining to them that she was charged for a crime of voting at their last presidential election in 1872. In several states laws were made for discrimination against women. When Anthony quoted the Federal constitution it said “We the people of the United States…” then she goes on to say that is says we the…

“... the New Women of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date...” (Zeitz). During the early 1900s, women were considered inferior to men. Women were expected to take care of the home, children, and religion. On the other hand, men took care of politics and business (Benner). Significant changes occurred in the 1920s for women regarding politics, labor, and appearance. A major event for women during the 1920s was the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment. On…

Author: Marie Gouges (7 May 1748 - 3 November 1793) was one of the first women to fight for equal rights. Although she was born Marie Gouges, she went by the name of Olympe Deauges because she did not want to be recognize as a widow when she got married and wanted to start another life in Paris with a different name that she choose from a combination of her mother and father’s name. Born in Montauban, Quercy in the south of France, De Gouges was not your typical woman. She shorty found…

The antebellum era in America was a time of swift change. With the principles of Romanticism in place, American’s were in the frame of mind to improve their society in order to reach a state of perfection, that according to the movement was thought to be achievable. American reform movements in the mid-19th century reflected both optimistic and pessimistic views of human nature and society with regards to women’s rights, temperance, and education. Women’s rights had its high and low points.…

than 70 years of struggle during the women’s suffrage movement, the day finally came; their goal was finally achieved. Many factors contributed to the ratification of this amendment that gave women the right to vote. Some of those factors include the Seneca Falls Convention, which started the entire movement, and the strenuous efforts of suffrage groups, such as the National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association (History.com staff, "The Fight for Women’s…

The United States of America is a country unlike any others, in which the people have the maximum amount of freedom citizens can have. Before this freedom was established a man named Patrick Henry was tired of not being free from the British so he gave a speech. In the speech to the Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry, he realized that we needed to be free and pitched the idea of fighting and going to war to receive this freedom, to the people of the convention which eventually led to…

of the mistreatment of women during her time, it was probably the exclusion from the World’s Antislavery Convention that may have encouraged her to start protesting for women’s rights. In July 1848, with several other women, Stanton held the famous Seneca Falls Convention. At this meeting, the “Declaration of Sentiments” was established by the attendees. This document was based off…

becoming our own nation to the debate on who should lead our great nation, citizens of the United States have argued over their beliefs. Those citizens believed a change needed to occur in the United States. For example, in Cady Stanton’s speech to the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention, Stanton explains the rights women received needed to be changed. Another example would be Frederick Douglass’s speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” in which Douglass explains how a change is…