The Progressive Era Progressivism is an umbrella label for a wide range of economic‚ political‚ social‚ and moral reforms. These included efforts to outlaw the sale of alcohol; regulate child labor and sweatshops; scientifically manage natural resources; insure pure and wholesome water and milk; Americanize immigrants or restrict immigration altogether; and bust or regulate trusts. Drawing support from the urban‚ college-educated middle class‚ Progressive reformers sought to eliminate corruption
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husbands. But this awakening gave women a sense of community and a greater role in the community. Elite white women in the North also responded to the changes in the United States. Women’s right was a controversial issue when it was presented in Seneca Falls convention in 1848‚ by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. The main point of this document was that both women and men were created equal. “He has taken from her all right in property‚ even to the wages she earns.” (Declaration of Sentiments 173)
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made the first women rights convention organized by women in Western World. That’s where the name came from: Seneca Falls Convention. Especially Elizabeth Stanton really deserved not to be forgotten because of her Declaration of Sentiments - the very first document‚ signed by 68 women and 32 men that were attending the first convention. It was a beginning of the storm that women wanted to cause. In the 1850 the members of the Anti-Slavery Society created a national convention for the formal consideration
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during her time (Elizabeth). Stanton would visit her cousin‚ Gerrit Smith‚ who was involved in many different social reformations‚ and there she became drawn to the Women’s Rights Movement (Elizabeth). In 1840‚ Elizabeth attended an Anti-slavery convention in London where she met Lucretia Mott‚ a leading female abolitionist‚ and after‚ Stanton began to study women’s rights (Women). In 1847‚ Stanton returned to America‚ and in 1851‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony crossed paths and began
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dream is like painting a beautiful picture - freedom‚ prosperity and success all contribute to people’s vision of being a happy American. By viewing the American dream‚ of St. Jean De Crevecoeur‚ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Iola Leroy‚ and the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions one is able to see how different each one of us is‚ and how many dreams are really out there. St. Jean De Crevecoeur wrote about the American dream as a positive experience. De Crevecoeur came to America
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Reform movements are a key characteristic in the antebellum period. Many groups sought to reform and uplift society in many ways‚ with many ideals in mind. Most of the antebellum reform movements reflected primarily democratic ideals. This was true through the many democratic based reforms between 1825 and 1850. One powerful and widespread movement in early America is the fight for women’s rights. This view of the women’s role was very similar to that of black slaves. Taken more serious was that
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the national level. Australia followed in 1902‚ but American‚ British‚ and Canadian women did not win the same rights until the end of World War I. The demand for the enfranchisement of American women was first seriously formulated at the Seneca Falls Convention (1848). After the Civil War‚ agitation by women for the ballot became increasingly vociferous. In 1869‚ however‚ a rift developed among feminists over the proposed 15th Amendment‚ which gave the vote to black men. Susan B. Anthony‚ Elizabeth
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us here but we’re here. This is all because of the individual that fought for the rights of woman. There have been speeches‚ rally’s and arrests in order to have woman in the spot that they are in now. The very first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls‚ New York on July 19th and 20th‚ 1848. A Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was debated and signed by 68 women and 32 men‚ setting the agenda for the women’s rights movement that followed (http://www.ibiblio.org/prism/mar98/path
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As a citizen of the United States you are gifted with civil rights. These rights are what protect your social and political freedoms as well as keep equality up in the mist; although it will never be achieved. Many people organize protest and other means to get the attention of the public; to let them know we are being cheated out of our rights. Some examples of these are the voting rights‚ women’s rights‚ black rights‚ and immigration reform acts. The voting rights act is the act which legalized
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In the 1800’s married women were treated unfair and unequal‚ and in this case inequality of all women‚ of all races‚ was very evident by the way women were merely property. State law governed in all states that married women were legal possessions rather than equal persons. Married women could not own any personal possession or property‚ all they had‚ became their husbands. In the 1800’s women had no rights to vote‚ and women would not have the right to vote until 1920. There were unequal wages for
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