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    important meeting and convention. Seneca Falls turned into a very important place for future changes in women's rights. According to Mountjoy, an important meeting was held in Seneca Falls being a tea meeting at a reformers house. The meeting took place during July of 1848. During this tea meeting the reformers decided how they would protest and give solutions for Women's Rights. The main idea they came up with was to have a convention at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls. (57) On the day of the convention

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    Rocks are the superior males and the pebbles are the weak females that have no power;, Rrocks can create mountains and hills, while pebbles can only be left with the dust and dirt, but one thing you did not know about pebbles is that they could skip in the river, rocks however are being eroded into pebbles and want change as the time pass. The pebbles are able to progress and be as strong and powerful as rocks as they skip along the river retaining a constant speed of strength to create a strong

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    Women’s Suffrage To what extent was the National Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 the start to women’s suffrage? Tess Hureau Period 8 April 30, 2018 Word count: 1,840 Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 Chapter 2:Negative Publicity-----------------------------------------------------------------------3 Chapter 3: Women Taking Control to Change Their Future-----------------------------------4

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    On July 19 and 20, 1848, a women’s rights convention was held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who had met previously at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840 and were “barred from the convention floor” (history.com). This lead to the two women planning the women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls. (history.com). In 1848, both Mott and Stanton, along with other women’s rights activists, such as Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock,

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    heated debate about keeping the idea of women’s suffrage out of the document; however, in the end it was kept, being signed by 100 people out of about 300, 68 being women and 32 were men. It was not until the 1850's that something similar to the Seneca Falls Convention was organized in Britain. Its main meeting place was at Langham Place in London, where a group of middle-class women, led by Barbara Bodichon and Bessie Rayner Parkes, met to discuss then-contemporary issues concerning women and publish

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    birthplace of Woman’s Rights” and “ A powerful partnership” tell of Susan B. Antony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton life. They both fought for woman’s freedom. They met at a convection in Seneca Falls. Them meeting altered History for the better. They worked hard for women’s freedom. There was a woman’s convention in Seneca falls. The convention was a slow movement for the national movement of woman’s rights. There were a few men but they didn’t do much to the convention. Seventy-two years after many conventions

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    There are many comparable similarities and differences between “Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and “Letter to John Adams” by Abigail Adams. These similarities involve their purpose for writing the messages and the power that needs to be given to women. As for differences, both women appeal to their audiences in different fashions and the impact that their statements made on the future of women’s rights. Despite the differences in

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    and you are men in the 19th century, there is practically nothing you can do about anything, but to stay home and cook. The first gathering devoted to women’s rights in the United States was held July 19-20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. The principal organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a mother of four from upstate New York and the Quaker Abolitionist Lucretta Mott. About 100 people attended the convention; two-thirds were women. Stanton drafted a “Declaration

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    statement, that’s exactly what it’s become. It perfectly captures how women have been throughout history and continue to be as long as there is injustice against them. In terms of equal rights for women, looking at many times in history such as the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848

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    The Women's Suffrage Movement was an outgrowth of the general Women's Rights Movement, a convention on the rights of women, which began with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. The convention adopted a "Declaration of Principles", which was later named the Seneca Falls Declaration. The document was basically signified as a major first step for attaining the civil, social, political and religious rights of women. It called for an increase in women's rights in these areas, as well as in education

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