Essays Tagged: "Seneca Falls Convention"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

usan.' After Henry passed the bar, we lived briefly in Boston before settling permanently at Seneca Falls, New York. From my home in the small town near the Canadian border, the start of the st ... ggle for women's rights began. Lucretia Mott and I organized the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, along with the draft of the Declaration of Sentiments. Susan B. Anthony and I g ...

(7 pages) 202 0 4.5 Mar/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Women's Right to Vote

The women's suffrage movement began in 1848 when a group of women met inSeneca Falls New York. These women issued what became known as the Declaration ofSentiments and Reso ... e both physically and mentally inferior to men, andtherefore should not have the right to vote. The Seneca Falls convention was organizedby a group of women who had been active in the antislavery move ...

(3 pages) 211 0 3.2 Sep/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Elizabehth Cady Stanton - discuss her contribution to the women's movement and the difficulties she encountered.

of black people, should understand and applaud her work. However, that was not the case. During the Seneca Falls convention that she had organized, her husband left town rather than witness here propo ... ampioned the married women's property act. Perhaps one of her greatest contribution she had was the Seneca Falls convention. There she helped draft the Declaration of Sentiments. This was a list of tw ...

(2 pages) 109 0 4.8 Oct/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

The history of the women's suffrage movement in the United states.

l, and economic status; the right to vote was not their initial focus. Indeed, those present at the Seneca Falls Convention regarded the resolution demanding the vote as the most extreme of all their ... rior force, women battled for their rights step by step, addressing one issue and then another. The Seneca Falls Convention was an important corner stone for all women. Congress, along with state gove ...

(16 pages) 776 5 4.0 Aug/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

An Essay dealing with the Age of Reform, known as the Progressive Era (1820-1860). Hits on the women, penal institutions, and the temperance movement.

er people.The most important optimistic wave of feelings came from the women's rights movement. The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was the first ever women's rights convention. At this gathering, vie ...

(3 pages) 133 0 5.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

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.

, civil, and the religious condition and rights of woman would take place at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls on July 19 and 20, 1848. The Declaration of Independence was used as the framework for ... they could imprison or beat them with impunity; among other ridiculous statutes (Gurko 101-102).The Seneca Falls women had optimistically hoped for "a series of conventions embracing every part of the ...

(4 pages) 212 0 4.1 Dec/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Struggling for our rights.

eryday rights.In the 1820's women began to take a stand for what they believed in. A women's rights convention was held in New York, in July 1848. They adopted a Declaration of Sentiments, which said, ...

(2 pages) 54 0 5.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Gender Problems in different Countries Around the World-- mostly bais against females.

cultures and time (some arguing that it is inversely related to social evolution).According to the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 there are more complex issues surface and the significant progress h ...

(9 pages) 231 2 3.4 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

This essay is about the women's rights movement starting in 1948 all the way up to 1920. It gives an overview of the groups and people involved, and some major milestones they accomplished.

An Era of ReformWho would have known that what first started off as a hand-full of people at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 would snowball into an all-out rebellion against the cruel and unjus ...

(2 pages) 65 0 3.5 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

FRE In what ways did the early nineteenth-century reform movements for abolition and women's rights illustrate both the strengths and the weaknesses of democracy in the early American republic?

nizers of petitions. Women's rights had achieved a high level of visibility after the convention at Seneca Falls. Soon, many other women were drawn to the movement, but none would be more important th ... they could ever win such a right as suffrage. The first major struggle for women's rights after the Seneca Falls convention was petitioning for married women's property rights. The fight against unfai ...

(7 pages) 153 0 3.8 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Women's voting rights and the 19th Amendment.

rty, and Caucasians.The women's suffrage movement began in 1848, with a convention in New York. The Seneca Falls convention was called by two women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Stanton w ...

(1 pages) 69 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

How did reform movements from 1815 to 1850 change America?

ghts movements were becoming more common. More women than ever were coming together to protest. The Seneca Falls Convention was the first organized women's rights movement. When women went to other co ...

(2 pages) 41 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Feminism in the US

hey would need to create their own organizations to do so. The first Women's Conference was held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. It was there, three years later, that Susan B. Anthony met Elizabeth ... n's suffrage movement lasted at least 70 years, from the first formal women's convention in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, to the passage of the 19th amendment. The first public appeal for woman suff ...

(7 pages) 294 1 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Feminist Reform Movements in the 19th century, insert more transitions and its an A paper

rst wave of feminism and women's rights reform. The first major achievement of the movement was the Seneca Falls Convention where Elizabeth Cady Staton declared the women should have the right to vote ...

(2 pages) 66 0 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Social Reform

dment, ending Prohibition.Another social change was the women's suffrage. Suffragists organized the Seneca Falls Convention in upstate New York. There, Stanton created the Declaration of Rights and Se ...

(1 pages) 15 0 0.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Compare the National Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association

al, legal and social equality were subjects in women's rights conventions such as the first held at Seneca Falls in 1848 (Faragher 394).The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was not the beginning of the ... g spirit of the women's reform movement aided in gaining women the right to vote 72 years after the Seneca Falls Convention. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was a great victory in the women's r ...

(2 pages) 27 0 5.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Women's Suffrage.

The women's suffrage movement began in 1848 when a group of women met inSeneca Falls New York. These women issued what became known as the Declarationof Sentiments and Reso ... re both physicallyand mentally inferior to men, and therefore should not have the right to vote.The Seneca Falls convention was organized by a group of women who had beenactive in the antislavery move ...

(3 pages) 46 0 0.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

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f the Declaration of Independence declared that "˜all men and women are created equal.'" Seneca Falls became the unveiling of the modern women's rights movement.Soon after the Seneca Falls ...

(8 pages) 22 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Evolution of a Social Movement

outs, and its cultivators are few in the beginning. The first women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. During the span of two days, a Declaration of Sentiments was drafted ... her companion, Lucretia Mott) the indignation which led Stanton to organize the first convention in Seneca Falls (The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. , 2007). In May 1869, Stanton and Susan ...

(10 pages) 74 0 0.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers

Womens Suffrage

rights and thus the suffrage movement was created.The idea of women rights first arouse during the Seneca Falls convention in July of 1848. The two most active women were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and S ...

(4 pages) 22 0 0.0 Nov/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing