Growing up as a female has never been easy. Men assumed women only had two jobs, keeping the house clean and bearing children. Luckily, many women in history have paved the way making it easier for all women in the 21st century to work outside the house, vote, earn more money, hold positions of power and achieve all their dreams. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Madeleine Albright, and Lucy Stone, just to name a few, each had a hand in helping little girls dream big dreams and realize that their dreams were achievable. Through their hard work, determination and suffering, women are more equal than ever.
Historians typically like to breakdown the history of the United States into different “eras”. One era that was important to
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Anthony and Stanton, as well as other leaders, worked endlessly lobbying congress and circulating petitions around the country to pass a consititutional amendment to give women the right to vote. (Reforming) The National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the National Women’s Party (NWP) helped spread the work through campaigning, lobbying the President and even picketing the White House. (Reforming) In 1920, the 19th Amendment was passed giving women the right to vote as a US citizen. (Reforming) There were many courageous women in American history that fought for the rights of all women. One of the most notable leaders was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton was born in New York on November 12, 1815. (Ward) Her family was wealthy, enabling her to go to some of the best school and colleges to earn her education. Like many other leaders, Stanton was involved in many causes. While she was working on the abolition movement, she met her husband, Henry B. Stanton, who also shared her passion for ending slavery. (Nash) In 1848, Stanton met several other women who were working within the Women’s Right’s movement. Together with these women, Lucretia Mott, Martha Wright, and Mary Ann McClintock, they formed the first Women’s Right Convention later called the Seneca Falls Convention. (Ward) Before the meeting, the women met and drafted a document called the Declaration of
Lucretia Mott, Martha C. Wright, and Mary Anne McClintock called upon women to join them in fighting for basic rights; Elizabeth Stanton also played a crucial role in this fight. These women were known for meeting and discussing the women’s rights abuses in the United States, however, it was time for them to finally place their resolutions on a declaration for rights that clearly mimics the style of the Declaration of Independence. With the completion of this document, the women appeared at a church to speak against the restrictions. Elizabeth Stanton stood proudly, ready to fight for the rights she deserved at birth
Thanks to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and many other women rights activists, from 1880-1910, the percentage of employed females rose about 300% (“Women’s Suffrage in the Progressive Era”). Throughout the women’s rights movement, Stanton influenced many females to fight for what they believed in, from better job opportunities, to voting rights, to divorce rights, and more. Stanton is one of the females who started the women’s rights movement in the late 1800s (Foner and Garraty). Elizabeth Cady Stanton had an influential early life, was involved heavily in the women’s rights movement, and had many different beliefs that were the basis of the movement.
The petition drive collected close to 400,000 signatures; the largest amount of any petition at that time. With the amendment passed and the freedom of African Americans secured the league disbanded and Anthony and Stanton formed the Equal Rights Association, whose chief goal was the suffrage of all women and African American men. However, with the 15th guaranteeing the vote only to African American men, and the subsequent abandonment of former allies like Fredrick Douglas, the two founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association. It was during this time that the two launched their weekly newspaper The Revolution, with Stanton as chief writer and editor, and Anthony ad publisher and part-time writer. The NWSA’s radical tactics in its effort to obtain recognition and the vote caused the emergence of a rival, more conservative group, the American Woman’s Suffrage Association. While the AWSA sought to obtain the vote via state-by-state reform, NWSA worked for a federal amendment and in 1878 Stanton wrote an amendment proposal under the NWSA to the U.S. senate that would be present every new congressional session for the next forty
Stanton’s most memorable convention was the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 where one hundred men and women gathered for the historic convention. There she introduced her manifesto, the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, which proclaimed that men and women are equal and women need more protection under the law. The document also called for expansion of employment and educational opportunities along with the right to vote for women. Stanton’s manifesto was inspired by the United States Declaration of Independence, The press was not fond with the Seneca Falls Convention and complained that all the women that attended were sour maids and childless women. Although the media did not approve of her remarkable meeting, it brought attention to the women’s rights movement on the political standpoint. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton forever changed the social and political landscape of the United States of America by succeeding in her work to guarantee rights for women and slaves. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leader in the 19th century for women’s activist and women’s suffrage leader. As an active American abolitionist, she gave many lectures and wrote books. Among those fighting for women’s rights, she was a primary leader. Though she was interested in women’s rights from many perspectives, Elizabeth realized that success hinged on women’s right to vote. Elizabeth often worked with Susan B. Anthony as a theorist and writer. Elizabeth was a very important person to the women’s rights movement, because she fought for equal rights of women to be considered equal to a man. Stanton’s unwavering dedication to women’s suffrage resulted in the 19th amendment to the Constitution, which granted that right. These facts will present to you the difficulties she encountered and her contributions.
Meeting Lucretia Mott lead to one of Stanton’s greatest accomplishments which was the world’s first women’s rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention. “The Seneca Falls Convention, a gathering on behalf of women’s rights held in the upstate New York town where Stanton lived, raised the issue of woman’s suffrage for the first time” (Foner 452). This was a huge milestone to spread the word about women 's equality in the United States. It was the first women’s convention, so it gathered a lot of hype and attention to women’s need of rights. There’s no reason why women should not get the right to vote, or the right of education just because their gender. Thankfully, “the convention was the beginning of the 70 year struggle woman’s suffrage” (Foner 453). Stanton helped spread the voice of women and their own ideas about rights. With the men being dominant in the society, it was difficult to lead the way of women 's rights, but the Seneca Falls Convention started it all.
I graduated in 1833 and returned to my parent's home, and this is when
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