November 20‚ 2013 The Seneca Falls Convention Throughout history women were not treated the same rights as men. Women were thought of as property‚ wives and mothers. People believed that women were inferior to men. Women could not own property and most of their education consisted of learning how to run a home. Men thought that they were more intelligent than women therefore‚ they didn’t think a woman could hold political office or vote. Men also thought women should not be involved in
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Chapter 13. 416-425 1. Women Reformers of Seneca Falls Respond to the Market Revolution a. 1848- Charlotte Woodward persuaded six of her friends to travel to Seneca Falls to attend a “convention to discuss the social‚ civil‚ and religious condition and rights of women.” b. Surprisingly‚ almost 300 people (men and women) attended the 2 day meeting c. Declaration of Sentiments- The resolutions passed at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 calling for full female equality‚ including
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11-4-13 Seneca Falls Convention (Women’s Suffrage) 1.) What events led up to the decision to have a women’s rights convention? Boylan‚ Anne. "Women and Politics in the Era before Seneca Falls." Journal of the Early Republic 10 (1990): 363-382. This journal goes in detail to explain women’s rights prior to the Seneca Falls Convention. Before Seneca Falls‚ women’s lack of social standing coupled with little to no political rights left them searching for a way to move up in the societal
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Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention Search the internet‚ textbooks‚ and encyclopedia for answers to the following questions. 1. In what state did the convention take place? The convention took place in Seneca‚ New York. 2. In what year did it take place? The convention took place on July 19-20‚1848 3. Who organized the convention? Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the convention‚ when they both met at the
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still denied the right to vote. The Women’s suffrage Movement took several years to make its way through and successfully in 1920 women won voting rights. It first began with the very first women’s rights convention in the United states at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Fall‚ New York‚ 1848. The convention was organized by Elizabeth
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Declaration of Sentiments The Declarations of sentiments was arguably the most significant document in history for the advancement of women in the nineteenth century America. It was made famous at the first Woman’s Rights Convention‚ held in Seneca Falls‚ New York‚ in July of 1848. Drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ the declaration outlined a series of grievances resulting from the unfair treatment of women and proposed eleven resolutions arguing that women had the right
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women working for their own rights more actively. Issues especially important in women’s history are abortion rights‚ peace and pacifism‚ domestic equalization‚ temperance and prohibition‚ and much more. One of the huge issues that jumpstarted the convention was women’s inability to express their opinion about slavery. Their inequality in religious bodies led to distrust of the Church and women started to refuse to conform to traditional gender rules‚ like legal rights in marriage and the ability to
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get together and organize their thoughts to establish a document in which they would incorporate the rights they wanted to acquire. With this in mind‚ the first women’s rights convention was launched in Seneca Falls with the purpose of discussing all of the issues regarding this topic. Therefore‚ the events of Seneca Falls‚ as well as the people who contributed in it‚ were of great impact on women’s rights.
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they went to the Anti-Slavery Convention in London. b. At the convention‚ women delegates were denied seats and Elizabeth wanted to hold a convention demanding women their own rights. c. The family moved to New York at first and had seven children. d. When the family moved to Boston‚ they were very involved in the lives of active abolitionists. e. When they moved back to New York‚ Elizabeth met with Lucretia Mott and three other Quaker women. III. Seneca Falls Convention a. Elizabeth participated in
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Female Seminary in 1832‚ she started to get interested in abolitionist‚ temperance‚ and women’s rights movements from her reformer cousin‚ Gerrit Smith. She married Henry Stanton‚ who was a reformer. Together‚ they attended the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London where Elizabeth Cady Stanton joined other women who hated being excluded from men. Elizabeth
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