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    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

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    ideal engaged citizen are education, ethics, and being an active part within the community. There are other traits as well but none that are as key as these three. Two famous documents that express these ideas are the Analects of Confucius and the Seneca Falls Declaration. Education has played different roles through the years. When the government system was first brought together only an educated free men could take part in any government related issues. Confucious says, “Study without

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    When Elizabeth Cady Stanton was in the full swing of fighting for rights I think she was like most of reformers. She was tough and took on a whole lot of issues at a time. During this time period there were a lot of issues going on that women were fighting. The 1800’s saw a lot of change through these women also. Women began to view their own rights as significant and advocated for the realization of these rights. The issues were widespread from education to abolition to woman’s suffrage. Many women’s

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    powerful speeches along with setting up the Seneca Falls Convention. The Seneca Falls Convention was held in Seneca Falls, NY and lasted from July 19th to the 20th. This was the first women’s rights convention that would ratify a Declaration of Sentiments.

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    ideals–liberty, equality, justice, etc.–to people other than the white male. Roles of women were changing as urbanization spread, wives were in charge of the house when husband was away known as cult of domesticity, ladies worked and some even went to college. The social reform

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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton      I was once called the most dangerous woman in America because I dared to ask for the unthinkable- the right to vote. I challenged my culture's basic assumptions about men and women, and dedicated my life to the pursuit of equal rights for all women. My name is Elizabeth Cady Stanton.      I was born in Johnstown, New York, on the 12th of November, 1815. My father is the prominent attorney and judge Daniel Cady and my

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    Women’s Rights Movement It all began in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention. Lucretia Mott was an early advocate for women’s rights (Stories). She came up with the idea for a women’s rights convention (Stories). Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Martha Wright, Mary Ann M’Clintock, and Jane Hunt all helped her in organizing the convention. Fredrick Douglass whom was also present at the convention worked with Mott in reporting the Seneca Falls Convention which was also printed at his office

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    She wasn 't allowed to go to college because colleges would let girls in, so instead she studied at Emma Willard 's Troy Female Seminary. Elizabeth would read the law with her father but, she wasn 't allowed to practice because of course she was a women. “She was drawn to the abolitionist, temperance

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    becoming teachers. There were also important people that played a role in achieving women’s rights. Some of those women being Dorothe Dix, Abigail Adams, and Susan B. Anthony. There was also another major step towards equal rights, and that was the Seneca falls. Without these steps and these important women that helped lead us to the Civil Rights Act, we may have never progressed from where we started with women having no rights. When it comes to women being looked at as equal, nothing early on helped

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    Until more recent scholarly attention in the field of Women’s Studies, the economic history of the colonial United States was almost entirely given from a male perspective. Women in the early United States played a variety of roles in the formation of the new nation, but often times, these roles were dependent on race, class, and geographical distinctions. Despite the differences, however, overarching patterns existed, reflecting a common public attitude toward women at the time. Economic opportunities

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