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Some leaders of the Early Women's Movement and their roles
... Lucretia wrote a Declaration of Sentiments, using the Declaration of Independence as their model. For example in the Declaration of Independence it states, " ... She gave up having a family of her own for a life of independence and service. She considered as ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
The history of women's rights. A fore-runner is Mary Wollstonecraft. It explains how times have changed from her time to the present day.
... Declaration of Independence was used as the framework for writing "the Declaration of Sentiments." It connected women's rights directly to that powerful American symbol of ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
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... of slavery, prison reform, temperance cause and of course, the women's rights movement. During the convention, "Stanton read a "Declaration of Sentiments,' which in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence declared ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Womens Civil rights movement- research paper
... Declaration of Independence as the framework for what she titled the "Declaration of ... of woman." The gathering would take place at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls on July 19 and 20, 1848. ( ). Elizabeth Cady Stanton used the Declaration of Independence ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Women's voting rights and the 19th Amendment.
... of two prominent suffrage organizations, the National Women Suffrage Association and the National American Woman Suffrage Association. A Declaration of Sentiments, similar to the Declaration of Independence ... Finally, after 72 years of fighting for voting ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
American Women in History
... called "A Declaration of Sentiments" Elizabeth Cady Stanton used the Declaration of Independence ... Declaration of Sentiments clearly outlined the status quo for women of the time and life was much worse for African American women. The end of the Declaration ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Compare the National Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association
... Declaration of Sentiments was drawn up at the convention and signed by the men and women attending the two day convention. The Declaration, modeled after the Declaration of Independence ... though women constituted a majority of the members (Faragher 394). ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
A Scrutiny of Subservient Collapse
... of independence but at the same time being as a wife and a mother to fulfill the essential of a citizen. The belief of ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Women's Changing Roles from 1865 - 1920
... Declaration of Sentiments was drafted it is similar to the Declaration of Independence but it is more wholly rounded to include persons of ... is at Seneca Falls that Elizabeth drafted the Declaration of Sentiments. That document is credited with initiating the ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Feminism by Minda Wu
... wrote the "Declaration of Sentiments," which was a play on the Declaration of Independence and the ... Declaration of Sentiments" and the National Woman Suffrage Association. From the days of the Salem Witch Trials , where women received the first taste of ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies