How would women feel today if they were treated unfairly compared to men? Even though many are still treated differently today, it was out of proportion during the 1800s. The Seneca Falls Convention occurred in Seneca Falls, New York in the 1840s. It changed the lives of many people. Before, American women were not able to vote, attend college, and were restricted to being a housewife. The Seneca Falls Convention laid a foundation for the first women’s rights which resolved many problems.
Almost three hundred people attended the convention. The majority of them were women, but forty of them were men. Of the men Frederick Douglass, an African American man, played a significant part in the women’s rights movement. In 1848 Douglass signed the
After trying to attend a slavery convention and not being allowed or included on the floor she knew it was time to change how women were seen and treated. In July of 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton met with Lucretia Mott, an abolitionist and feminist, and together they brought forth the first women’s rights convention in American history. Elizabeth was titled the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1869 until 1890. Then from 1890 until 1892, she was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. With the help of many other women, one being Susan B. Anthony, ultimately known for being the fighter who won the women’s right to vote, Elizabeth Stanton did everything she could to get women in America the rights that they deserved. At age eighty Elizabeth Stanton wrote the “women’s bible” declaring religion was the leading cause of women’s oppression, offending the Christian temperance movement and causing alienation of suffrages. After being abandoned by her once loyal supporters she fell into near obscurity. Susan B. Anthony took over from her mentor, traveling extensively and campaigning on behalf of women. In 1872, she took matters into her own hands and voted illegally in the presidential election. Susan B Anthony was arrested for the crime,unsuccessfully fought the charges and was fined a hundred dollars of which she never paid. Susan B Anthony never gave up
From the 1600s to the 1840s, a minimal education was available to women. They were not allowed to attend college; therefore, it was difficult for them to exceed in anything other than working in a kitchen or a factory. Once women were married, they were immediately owned by their husbands. With little education in working skills, women had no choice but to rely on men. The Seneca Falls Convention was a big step in attempting to change the discrimination towards women 's ability in the
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born in 1815, was known for her dedicated role as a women’s rights activist. At the peak of her career, she teamed up with Susan B. Anthony and formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and also eventually brought about the passage of the 19th amendment, giving all American citizens the right to vote. But before all that, Stanton started out as an abolitionist, spending her time focused on abolishing slavery but then later becoming more interested in women’s suffrage. One of her most famous moments was
Elizabeth Cady Stanton wanted to start making meetings and speeches to make people aware of how women were treated around them. She paired up with a woman named Susan B. Anthony to help her make speeches. So Elizabeth made her first speech at Seneca Falls in 1848. Elizabeth had her first women's rights convention. The most noteworthy of the earlier conventions were the ones held in Massachusetts, where
...intolerance over the immorality of slavery. A movement to treat the insane humanely was taken up by reformer Dorothea Dix. She believed the insane deserved better treatment as they were not criminals, they were simply ill. Other reformers, such as Horace Mann sought to equalize the social classes by providing free and better education for the poor (a public education system). This cause was instrumental in sparking the flame of education which would spread though the Untied States like wildfire. Desiring equality with men, women took advantage of this spirit of reform and proceeded with the Seneca Fall Convention in New York, 1848. Drafting a document similar to the Declaration of Independence, women sought equality in all aspects of life. These and other reforms in the 1840s were a direct result of the Jacksonian ideal which “celebrated the era of the common man”.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an important element of the Women’s Rights Movement, but not many people know of her significance or contributions because she has been overshadowed by her long time associate and friend, Susan B. Anthony. However, I feel that she was a woman of great importance who was the driving force behind the 1848 Convention, played a leadership role in the women’s rights movement for the next fifty years, and in the words of Henry Thomas, “She was the architect and author of the movement’s most important strategies ad documents.”
This discrimination towards this sex was reinforced by the idea that women was made for man. Not only was this idea prevalent within society but it furthermore is resonated through the laws and documents the government put in place. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony fought to establish equality between both sexes within the nation. This is illustrated within the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions at Seneca Falls when these women stated, “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object he establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.” This quote expresses the past of women rights and how from the beginning of time women have been seen as inferior to man. This furthermore resonated to express the idea that women were not only inferior but also a material object in a man’s life. Stanton and Anthony put a large emphasis into this ideal, making it their driving force into establishing women’s rights in America.
Today we will be talking about the Seneca Falls Convention conservation and what it was about. It was about slavery and their society and how they longed for equality, peace and freedom. For example, a woman named Lucretia Mott wed to a fellow teacher named James Mott, and moved to Philadelphia. Suffrage, which was slowly introduced, means the power to choose rulers and make laws. This law provided equal righting votes no matter what gender the citizen is. Mott attend a meeting called the American Anti-Slavery. A person named Elizabeth Candy Stanton organized the Declaration of Sentiments. The Declaration of Independence listed 18 changes which allowed married women to keep their own name if they
On July 19th 1848, the first Women's Convention was held in Seneca Falls, from which 68 women and 32 men participated, to discuss Women's rights and equality to men. During the convention, was written the “Declaration of Sentiments”, document that approached the issues to be overcome by women, including their rights regards: voting; social equality; intellectual capacity; equal payment and right to occupy high positions. Today, one hundred and sixty six years after this convention was held, what have women really accomplished in terms of acceptance and support from our government and society? Researches show that women are still under paid in comparison to men in same positions; women are still struggling to occupy higher positions within the companies they work; society is still imposing to women the main part on parenthood without attributing shared responsibilities to men; government is still lacking support regards laws involving maternity leave and equal pay.
On August 18, 1920 the nineteenth amendment was fully ratified. It was now legal for women to vote on Election Day in the United States. When Election Day came around in 1920 women across the nation filled the voting booths. They finally had a chance to vote for what they thought was best. Not only did they get the right to vote but they also got many other social and economic rights. They were more highly thought of. Some people may still have not agreed with this but they couldn’t do anything about it now. Now that they had the right to vote women did not rush into anything they took their time of the right they had.
Susan B. Anthony who was a Quaker, was therefore opposed to the immorality slavery but also played a role in the movement calling for equality and rights of women. Anthony was inspired by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was also active in both movements, but very famous for her aggressive action in the Women's Movement, which can be shown by Document I. Elizabeth Cady Stanton played a very important role in The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. This convention also sought to expand democratic ideals, and more radically than perhaps any other event of any movement. They produced a declaration which stated that all men and women are created equal, and should therefore be treated equal. Stanton believed that women should be equally "represented in the government" and demanded for the right to vote.
Many men attended the Seneca Falls convention and defended women’s rights. There were many conventions prior to the Seneca Falls convention to speak on women’s rights and to gather petitions, like the Rochester Convention to consider the rights of women religiously, industrially, and politically (page 95). Many years after the Seneca Falls Convention and many more years of protesting and meetings the First National Women’s Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 23rd and 24th (page 106). There was said to be up to a thousand people attending, including men (page
Women began standing up for more rights and realizing that they could be treated better. 1840 the World Anti-slavery Convention in London showed a great example of inferiority of women. Women were denied a seat at the convention because they were women. Women like Elizabeth C. Stanton and Lucretia C. Mott were enraged and inspired to launch the women’s rights movement. Elizabeth Stanton promoted women’s right to vote. “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to forment a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
Even though the Seneca Falls conference for the Declaration of Independence was in 1848 which is about 72 years after the colonies declaration of independence they had some similarities in the components that each document contain plus what each wanted to represent for it was used as a model. To start with the statement “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal”, the whole sentence is very similar to that of the colonies and it provides the content in which even though time and places are different they had similar views in how they wanted things to be and the governmental guidelines. This document wanted the women to have the same rights as men, for them to be considered individuals by society. Evidently, 68 women and 32 men signed it; which as mentioned before was different from the US Declaration of Independence where only men, 56 of them, signed it. This Declaration of Independence is a ground changing moment for it realigns women to be treated equally and goes about stating many forms of mistreatment that have been occurring to women since the start of time. So with this they are now to be given the same rights detailed in the US declaration of Independence for they are too citizens of the United States. Even though this even
Nonetheless, this reform of women did not halt to the rejection, nor did they act in fear. The CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION states: “One of the main leaders of the women’s suffrage movement was Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906). Brought up in a Quaker family, she was raised to be independent and think for herself. She joined the abolitionist movement to end slavery. Through her abolitionist efforts, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851. Anthony had not attended the Seneca Falls Convention, but she quickly joined with Stanton to lead the fight for women’s suffrage in the United
Susan B. Anthony is the most well known name in women's rights from the 1800s. Most people who are not familiar with the history of this time are aware of Susan's reputation and nearly everyone of my generation has seen and held a Susan B. Anthony silver dollar. For these reasons I was greatly surprised to learn that Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the original women's rights movement spokeswoman and Susan B. Anthony her protégé.
McMillen, S. (2008). Seneca falls and the origins of the women 's rights movement. New York: Oxford University Press.