There are many things that stand out in America as we have all come to know it today. Among those that are in the majority there are no worries‚ and things are typically thought to be very equal and just. Everything is relative‚ and compared to the past everything is equal and just‚ but there is a lot of ground that can still be made. There are numerous examples throughout our history of people stating grievances in the cases of women’s rights‚ African American rights‚ GLBT issues‚ and even the unstated
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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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Following the victory of the Suffrage movement with the passage and ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920 many in the women’s movement were left wondering‚ what’s next? Suffrage was the attainment of a goal of generations of women‚ and with its passage‚ to paraphrase Plutarch‚ what worlds were left to be conquered? Writing in the Historian‚ Peter Geidel states that it was at this point that the women’s movement splintered into schools: The Social Feminists and the Feminists”. According to Geidel
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In the midst of women participating in other movements‚ several women finally collectively met in Seneca Falls‚ New York to demand the right to vote. By seeing how powerful they could be in other movements they then focused on their own injustices and then demanded their rights. Women were met with opposition by those who wanted to keep women in the “private
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to gain women’s suffrage‚ freedom from their male spouses‚ rights to work and to be educated‚ rights to property‚ and representation in the government which they had taxed to support. In 1848‚ they specifically stated their motives for reform at Seneca Falls‚ NY in their ’Declaration of Sentiments’ (doc.I). The women’s rights movement sought for liberty and justice for women‚ both major components of democratic ideals. The women’s movement slowly faded as the overpowering abolition movement came into
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include having trouble moving up in the business‚ to what they call “mommy tracking”. In the end‚ women should have the equal opportunity as men in the workplace. The women’s right movement began in 1848 where people all over the country attended in Seneca Falls‚ New York. A reported 100 people attended‚ where two-third of them were women. The woman who made this conference possible was Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ and Lucretia Mott. After the Civil War the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed
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took care of family 2. Husbands controlled where they were allowed to work/wages. III. Women started to get together to fight for equality. A. Started getting together. 1. 1848-group of abolitionist activists (mostly women) gathered at Seneca Falls‚ New York to discuss women’s rights and
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government or anywhere else for that matter. Many women were involved in this reform movement such as the Grimke sisters‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ Lucretia Mott‚ and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. According to Document I‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton made this statement at Seneca Falls on August 2‚ 1848. “…But we are assembled to protest against a form of government‚ existing without the consent of the governedвЂâ€to declare our right to be free as man is free‚ to be represented in the government which we are taxed
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In this day and age‚ women have liberties that are often taken for granted. Women have the freedom to choose which university they will attend (if they plan on attending college)‚ what career they wish to pursue‚ and also who their mate in marriage will be. In early American days‚ liberties of women were looked upon from society as being wealthy and holding high social status but Judith Murray sought to change this. Judith Murray was an advocate for women equality. One of her greatest works were
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Today ’s American women are following centuries old traditions of rebelling against society ’s outlook on women around. Earlier in America ’s history‚ it was unheard of for a woman to be in both the public and domestic sphere. Women were forced to spend most of their life in the domestic sphere‚ and wear ridiculous clothes everyday. For a long time‚ women have been degraded and pushed around‚ causing women to initial movements to change the way society treats women. In America‚ "the land of the
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