To do this‚ Stanton calls upon two hugely influential pieces of literature‚ and rewrites them from a feminist eye to create the Woman’s Bible and the Declaration of Sentiments. In the Woman’s Bible‚ Stanton starts off by explaining how the Bible has disparaged and misrepresented women. Perhaps the most relevant‚ is the Bible’s teaching that “...woman brought sin and death into the world” (Stanton Bible 7). With religion being held in such high regard‚ women
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US History 7.1 Industry and Transportation The Transportation Revolution Improving the Roads Turnpike Roads - users had to pay a toll only a few made a profit‚ didn’t do the intended purpose National Road - only decent road‚ made of crushed rock The Steamboat Goes Commercial main advance in transportation made it easier and faster to travel Canals Boom canals made it easier to transport between farms and cities Erie Canal - best known canal of the era Railroads Further Ease Horses
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During the first half of the 19th century‚ women’s roles in society evolved in the areas of occupational‚ moral‚ and social reform. Through efforts such as factory movements‚ social reform‚ and women’s rights‚ their aims were realized and foundations for further reform were established. The occupational standings of women evolved in the first half of the nineteenth century. A new system of recruitment‚ the Lowell-Waltham system‚ emerged in Massachusetts. This new factory system brought in young
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Many women in the suffrage movement contributed to achieve women’s rights today‚ but some became leaders‚ being the driving force behind the revolution. One of the most important leaders in the women’s rights movements was Susan B. Anthony. As a child‚ her family was very active in reform movements‚ working for prohibition of alcohol and the anti-slavery movement. Growing older‚ she realized that she could help make a difference in how women were treated‚ and founded the National Women’s Suffrage
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woman‚ thus realizing that no one would listen to women in politics unless they had the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony was known for her fights‚ rallies‚speeches and her very own publication “The Revolution” she Co worked on with Elizabeth Cady Staton. “Anthony and Stanton created and produced The Revolution‚ a weekly publication that lobbied for women’s rights in 1868”(Susan B. Anthony…”). Her contributions help give women the courage to come together as a whole and gain what they so desperately wanted…
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1776–1807: New Jersey grants women the vote in its state constitution. 1838: Kentucky widows with children in school are granted "school suffrage‚" the right to vote in school board elections. July 13‚ 1848: Lucretia Mott‚ Martha C. Wright‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Ann McClintock are invited to tea at the home of Jane Hunt in Waterloo‚ New York. They decide to call a two-day meeting of women at the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Seneca Falls to discuss women’s rights. July 19 and 20‚ 1848: Three
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Standing before a crowd packed into Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls‚ New York‚ thirty-two-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton proclaimed: “We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men and women are created equal.” The intent of her statement was clear – to give new meaning to Jefferson’s often quoted phrase from the Declaration of Independence. Using Jefferson’s document as a model‚ Stanton created and presented the “Declaration of Sentiments‚” a document that became the grand movement for
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Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women’s rights movement to introduce women’s suffrage into the United States. She was co-founder of the first Women’s Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President. She also co-founded the women’s rights journal‚ The Revolution. She traveled the United States and Europe‚ and averaged 75 to 100 speeches per year. She was one of the important advocates in leading the way for women’s rights
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as well. - Andrew Johnson - Laws 95. “A Sharecropping Contract” (1866) - Thomas J. Ross - Contract - Slaves (freed) stay on plantation and crop off land but some crops went to plantation owner. 96. “Elizabeth Cady Stanton” “Home Life” (1875) -Essay - Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Demanded the idea of universal equality/ right to be divorced/ vote 97. Frederick Douglass “The Composite Nation” (1869) - Asian- Americans couldn’t vote yet either‚ Douglass spoke for them-> right to vote
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males. In a sense‚ they were “owned” by their fathers and husbands. As time passed and the country developed‚ women gradually gained rights otherwise not permitted to them before. But the battle to get this far was not easy. Women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony had to toil to and fight in what they believed in and in the end their effort did not go in vain. From the 1840s-1920s women fought for equality‚ from the 1930s- present women’s rights became reinforced‚ black women fought
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