Colonial America Era (1600-1750) 1. Legal Status: a. Women had limited legal rights. They couldn’t vote‚ be jurors‚ or hold political offices. b. If single or widowed‚ women could not own property. As soon as they were married any property they would have received would become their husbands. c. If a woman was an indentured servant‚ they could not be married until their time of service had passed. 2. The Chesapeake Area: a. Women in the Chesapeake Bay were treated kinder then in other regions
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and Lucretia Mott led the first national woman’s rights convention in the United States. They wrote the Declaration of Sentiments to “demand civil liberties for women and to right the wrongs of society” (Johnson 386). This inspired many women to challenge the barriers that limited their opportunities‚ because for the first time in history‚ they are not afraid to speak up. For this reason‚ the Declaration of Sentiments‚ Seneca Falls Convention‚ 1848 is the beginning of the modern women’s rights movement
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The General Importance of the UNCRC to Singapore Children have additional needs because of their vulnerability Children face a confusing array of minimum ages at which they are deemed capable of making decisions for themselves – some of them potentially life-changing. The UNCRC is sometimes spoken of as the most complete of the international human rights instruments as it includes civil‚ political‚ economic‚ social‚ and cultural rights as well as incorporating aspects of humanitarian law. The
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In 1848‚ in the United States‚ women stood together at a conference in Seneca Falls‚ NY to discuss their unjust in the system and go over their grievances. After a couple days of the convention‚ about 70 women and about 30 men signed the Declaration of Sentiments‚ which outlined their said unjust and grievances. Just a few of those issues were: Married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law Women were not allowed to vote Women had to submit to laws when they had no
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In the midst of the nineteenth century‚ women were viewed as homemakers and considered “second class citizens”.1 They were also fighting for their independence and their rights as human beings. They were considered “second class citizens”.2 It was not popular for women to get an education and go to school nor for them to have a job leaving them to just be at home‚ but there were maids for cleaning and cooking and nanny’s for taking care of the children so women had no sort of role in society. Women’s
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while gaining significant publicity for their cause. The movement of women into the public and political spheres had been gaining in momentum and popularity since the mid-19th century. Women demanded suffrage as early as 1848. The Seneca Falls convention brought together 200 women and 40 men‚ including feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott‚ to make the claim for full citizenship. The delegates believed women to be citizens not limited in any way to their roles as wives or mothers. In
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blacks gained their right to vote‚ women began to cry for equality. "The beginning of the fight for women suffrage is usually traced to the Declaration of Sentiments ’ produced at the first woman ’s rights convention in Seneca Falls‚ N. Y. in 1848." (Linder) A few years before this convention‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott had to sit as observers at an anti-slavery gathering because they were women. Neither was very happy with that arrangement which led to the creation of Stanton ’s‚ "Declaration
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Reform movements including religion‚ temperance‚ abolition‚ and women’s rights sought to expand democratic ideals in the years 1825 to 1850. However‚ certain movements‚ such as nativism and utopias‚ failed to show the American emphasis on a democratic society. The reform movements were spurred by the Second Great Awakening‚ which began in New England in the late 1790’s‚ and would eventually spread throughout the country. The Second Great Awakening differed from the First in that people were now believed
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19th century and carried on until the early 20th century the main focus of the movement was to give women more of a voice in the world and to end suffrage and give women the right to vote. It was first recognized as a movement at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 were people like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth had a massive impact in the movement. Martha Rampton a professor of history and director of the Center for Gender Equity at Pacific University‚ writes about the four waves of feminism
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TERMS AND CONCEPTS: 1. Sex and Gender What do they mean‚ what are the differences between the two? Gender is a social construction. Sex refers to biological differences that are unchanging; gender involves the meaning that a particular society and culture attach to sexual difference. Because the meaning varies over time and among cultures‚ gender differences are both socially constructed and subject to change. Male/Female (sex) vs. Masculine/Feminine (gender). 2. Race and Class Issues
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