Women's Rights in the United States in the 1700s

Slowly, women and men are integrating and even though there are set jobs, women are moving up and changes are occurring. One example of this is shown in document F where both men and women are working together, instead of the woman staying at home. This shows that women are starting to earn the respect of the men. Document E shows the point of view of a woman named Mercy Otis Warren in 1805. She admits that there are "certain appropriate duties to each sex" but still believes that one sex should not have complete power over the other. She states that although there are evident differences between men and women, every human should be able to have their own degree of freedom and liberty. Once the women began to have jobs, they realized that they were depending too much on what the men were telling them to do, when they knew that could take things into their own hands. This is shown in document L when Catherine E. Beecher makes suggestions on the way the women should teach in 1829. She says that the men believed the women should be teaching the children at home their morals, meaning what is right from wrong, and also their manors, and values. Catherine E. Beecher says that the women can teach this in the school rather than at home. She says now since the women finally can get jobs, they are still taking too many orders from the men. She thinks that they should

The Amendment was passed August 26, 1920. Their fight to vote started sometime in the 1820s. In the 1820s american women were titled to be a perfect housewife which included cooking for the men and children, cleaning, looking after children, and should be submissive towards the other gender. They were not allowed to have paying jobs because men thought women could not handle that things except for taking care of their family. In 1851 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton work together to fight for women’s rights. A lot of people were against what they were trying to accomplish and still are. They worked together in making a newspaper to promote the idea of women’s rights. Around 1869 the National Women’s Suffrage Association was formed

Over the years people have been worried about their young children working in factories or many other dangerous circumstances. With in these years people have also been concerned with their equal rights. Women tend to be treated or paid unfairly when compared to their men colleagues. Before 1938 factories would hire children to do the same dangerous and high- risk jobs that fully grown men were doing. If there were fully grown adults getting injured on the job, one can only imagine what would happen to a kid. In 1923, women and some men tried to make everything equal for women. They worked towards something called equal rights. This movement was thought up by people who supported women's rights, to make things more equal. Women wanted fair

Women in the mid-1800s had nearly any rights they could not vote or hold office. If women were to get married their husband got all of the property he owned all her wages if she worked the husband could hit his wife long as it did not injure her. Women held many rallies and other events to try and get equal right. The Women's Rights Movement allowed women a chance to go to college and other schooling opportunities. Finally women got the same jobs as men they got paid the same they owned all of their property and wages.

Did women always have the same rights and roles as men? Were they always able to live a free life? Well not really, but the women were willing to fight for it.

During the American Revolution, most women stayed home and sewed and cooked for their family and stayed subservient to their husbands. Some women went a step further and went to the front and nursed the wounded. At that time, women were not allowed to do a lot. A lot of women fought for their rights. Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams, helped plant the seeds that would start women and men thinking about women 's rights and roles in a country that had been founded on the ideals of equality and independence.Abigail Adams was born Abigail Smith on November 22, 1744, in Weymouth, Massachusetts, a farm community about fifteen miles southeast of Boston. Her family on both sides had lived in the colonies for several generations and was well established in the most influential circles of society. Her father, William Smith, was a Harvard graduate who served as a minister in Weymouth. Her mother, Elizabeth Quincy Smith, was from a long line of prosperous, educated New Englanders. Abigail, with her two sisters, Mary and Betsy, and one brother, Billy, enjoyed a happy childhood growing up in the Weymouth mansion. The family was financially comfortable, complete with servants. The house was commonly busy and full of houseguests and children. Like most girls of her time, Abigail received no formal education. Girls were taught reading and writing primarily so that they could read their Bible and write letters, which would become an important part of her

Women’s roles in the American household had been the same since the discovery of America to 1848. Women in the simplest of terms were meant to run the household, raise the children, cook, clean, etc. This began changing in 1848 when women wanted to break free from the social norms and develop a social role outside of the household. Women felt that their lives would be completely transformed if they earned the right to vote; once they earned the vote then they would earn equality across the board. This desire for social change began boiling many years before 1848 when women began reading and writing domestic novels expressing anger towards women’s dependency on men. They began attending women’s academies and formed ladies’ benevolent societies where they pursued their own personal interest and activities. Then in 1848 approximately 200 women gathered together to hold the first women’s rights convention in the United States. This convention discussed the social, civil, religious condition and rights of women. There would go on to be 10 National Women’s Rights Conventions and The National Women’s Suffrage Association along with the National Women’s Party. “Although social change was a constant in the American Republic, women were expected to be the stable unchanging element in a changing world.” Although the Women's rights movement allowed the equal treatment of men and women it did cause so much pain for so many women. The Women's rights movement created equality and justice,

Women suffered in the 1800’s since their rights were not respected and the disrespect led on through time. United States, later on, created an amendment for women to have the right to vote and this gave them the rights they felt they deserved. Women protested against bars and the sales of alcohol altogether due to religious beliefs and having persistent groups to push for the banning. An amendment released around the same time was known as the 18th amendment. The American temperance society agreed with the government that there should be an abstinence from alcohol. People who would rebel against the law and the amendment, that still participated in selling alcohol were known as bootleggers. These rebellious acts pushed America to change once and for all. New beginnings were forming.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This sentence from the Deceleration of Independence is one of the most well known of American documents. However, consequently we have all become comfortably numb to this statement and don’t take into consideration the struggles, fights, and deaths from our history that made this statement true. Due to the unceasing fight of men and women of three different groups, America was altered for the better. The late 1800 to early 1900 was an essential time for three key groups women, African Americans, and Indians to fight for their constitutional rights.

The day-to-day lives of men and women were quite clearly divided during the 1800s. Women were much more restricted in their movements. Most of their work was done in and around the home. Tasks like sewing, spinning, cooking, cleaning, and gardening were all familiar to most working-class women. Marriage and children were also inevitable for most women, as they provided a certain degree of security and social status. In the late 1800s women were treated poorly because they were treated as secondary citizen, woman suffrage and lack of woman voting right with many people opposing any movement about women should have equal right.

In the time era of 1800s, women were inferior to males. They were not taken seriously and not allowed by society to do male jobs. Many women decided to change this through events like the Seneca Falls Convention. The growth of the women’s right movement included the progress of education, marriage laws, and professions for women. Through movements, women were given opportunities that they weren’t originally able to get.

Have you ever thought of how we women got our freedom where we don’t have to be so dependent of the males in their life? We all have heard about the role of women in the 1800s. Have you thought or heard of the details of it? Have you ever thought of how the role of women in the 1800s made the women feel by the way they were being treated? According to Susan M. Cruea, due to their emotional and physical frailty, a true woman needed to be protected by a male family member (3).

During the time frame of The Awakening women were expected to bend to the will of their husbands or those around them. This is shown by, “[…] was designed to inculcate modesty and submissiveness” (Walker 4). This quote shows that in the 1800s women were supposed to appear weak and unable to do anything for themselves. Women did not have any rights at this time either. They were to learn how to be a proper lady and stay true to that behavior. Going against this expectation would be seen as going against society during these times. Women did not have any rights in the 1800s, but there were some women who tried to fight for these rights. “[…] New York Ledger columnist Fanny Fern (pseudonym of Sara Willis Parton) argued for political, economic,

Women had no rights in the 1800 hundreds. The hierarchy in the United States of America back then was rich white men, poor white men, white women, black men and black women. During those time women were uneducated and as a result had to take care of the house chores such as cleaning, cooking, going grocery shopping and lots more. Today women has the opportunity to become whomever they aspire to be, they are liberated and educated. As a result they are able to fill positions such as doctors, lawyers, engineers, and so much more.

The legal position of American and English women changed dramatically over the last two centuries. We discuss these two countries together because the evolution of rights is remarkably parallel. The initial situation was also similar, as the legal system in both countries is grounded in the common law (with exceptions in a few U.S. states that were initially colonized by Spain or France).The changes to women’s rights over the last 200 years can be grouped into three phases. During the second half of the nineteenth century, women gained economic rights related to property, child custody, and divorce. During the early twentieth century, political rights were extended to women.