Elizabeth Cady Stanton In The Declaration Of Sentiments

Women’s Suffrage Between 1840 and 1920, women were coming together to protest that they should have the right to vote. Many women joined this protest. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the first women to begin the protest for giving women the right to vote. She and many other women came together to create the Declaration of Sentiments. Because of Stanton and the help of many other suffragettes, women stood together to win their right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the first to say that women deserved the right to vote and that men should not have all the say so. After, many women were no longer afraid to stand up for themselves. Eventually, many women stood with Stanton. She spoke at many conventions, such as the Rochester Convention of 1848. In Seneca Falls and the Origin of the Women’s Rights Movement by Sally McMillen, it states that Stanton was even invited to the National Women’s Rights Convention in 1850, but she was not able to make it because of her pregnancy. She did not agree that men should have so much power over women. Women could not do the many things they wanted to do for the fear that it would look bad for their husbands’ or fathers’. So when Elizabeth stood up for what she believed

Mostly the ninth resolution of the document caused this controversy. This resolution called for allowing women the equal right to vote. While most agreed with the rest of the resolutions, this one, according to History, was the only resolution that did not pass unanimously (“Seneca Falls Convention”). Because some of the people who attended were Quaker men, who often declined to vote, they believed their wives did not need the right to vote (Rynder). Frederick Douglass, a freed slave, agreed with Stanton that women should have the right to vote. He argued with the people and it was then decided that it should be passed. Seneca Falls was soon ridiculed by newspapers around the