Declaration of Sentiments

The place of women changed drastically during the nineteenth century. Many factors such as the market revolution and the second great awakening impacted the way they were in the family, at work, and society. The role of women changed in a way that they were treated differently not just by society but in the house as well. They were beginning to be noticed and they fought to be independent from men, which took a long time to achieve, but they did it. Women believed they were just as able as men to

others. Those women are: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eleanor Roosevelt and Melba Beals. Elizabeth Cady Stanton found power through gender solidarity. She was a true feminist concerned with not just suffrage but total equality for the sexes. Her Declaration of Sentiments brilliantly

Americans value to have the right of equality and liberty, unfortunately not everyone is providential or important enough in society to exceed those values. The struggle for the right of freedom has always been a part of American history and still continues into the 21st century. The country as a whole has struggled to come to an agreement as to who is worthy of equality and freedom. Throughout America, the tension of slavery and women's equality has risen until the people finally realized their

Quaker Abolitionist Lucretta Mott. About 100 people attended the convention; two-thirds were women. Stanton drafted a “Declaration of Sentiments, Grievances and Resolutions,” that echoed the preamble of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal.” Among the 13 resolutions set forth in Stanton’s “Declaration” was the goal of achieving the “sacred” right of franchise.”3 The sometimes-fractions suffrage movement that grew out of

suffering from female discrimination, Women 's Rights activist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, wrote the "declaration of Sentiments" to declare independence for women from men. Stanton articulates how all men and women are created equal, in her declaration she outlines the injustices towards women by men in eighteen charges against the male dominant society. By modeling the declaration after Jefferson 's "Declaration of Independents" she creates a patriotic tone in order to pursued all women and men, particularly

Various of the resolutions that the Declaration of Sentiments proposed, were based off of the Law of Nature, and unfortunately did not come true by the time that women received the right to vote. The Law of Nature, also known as the Natural Law, was an observable phenomenon (an empirical truth) within society. The author of involved in writing the Declaration of Sentiments, Elizabeth cast Stanton, “Resolved, That such laws as conflict, in any way, with the true and substantial happiness of woman

disparity between men and women and states that it isn’t fair. Stanton seeing this decided that she would stand up and demand rights for all women. Her speech at the Seneca Falls Convention led to sixty-eight women and thirty-two men signing the Declaration of Sentiments. Edward Snowden is a whistleblower from the 21st century. Snowden was a man who had outstanding IT skills and eventually landed a job at the NSA. He gained access to numerous files that showed the crimes the NSA was committing against

The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments is very similar to the Declaration of Independence. This is because they are both lists of problems written by people who wanted to change something about the United States. The Declaration of Independence was explaining to the British government why the United States colonists wanted their independence from their government. The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments is a list of the problems women have with the way that they are being treated. Both of

America is a melting pot of people that are defined because of race, gender, and social position. The issue of gender has been a one-sided dispute that has had to overcome many challenges. Women have been seen as the inferior gender and have had to overcome many obstacles that men have put in the way to reach a position of equality. Women in an America can be defined in many ways in different time periods, but what women have shown to be in every period is strong, persistent beings that are just

Speeches and addresses such as The Declaration of Sentiments were the inspirations that drove the people of America to start the women's rights movement. In American history, the time period of 1848 to 1920 is known as the women's rights movement. During this time period women moved to become the social, economical, and political equals of males in America. This movement can be called arguably one of the longest civil rights movements in the history of America. This civil rights movement lasted