Seneca Falls Convention: Women In The 1800's

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Seneca Falls Convention By Nicole borm If you’re a teacher, student, a physicist, a stay at home mom, or a sales clerk we have a lot of people to thank for their hard work to make us who we are today. Back in the 1800’s women didn’t have rights and were often considered being property till they were old enough to marry. If these women didn’t put the effort to change the way we live today where would we be? Would we still be property? We would not have x-rays; find radiation in soil, the baby carrier, Animal Handling systems, windshield Wipers, Barbie dolls, and new medicine. In the 1880’s women had hard times, they weren’t allowed to own anything, were property till they could be married, they weren’t allowed to speak in public, they…show more content…
At the age thirteen she was sent to a boarding school which was run by the “Society of Friends.” She became a teacher after graduating from school there. Her first sign of Women Rights was when discover that the male teachers were paid three times more than the female teachers. When she moved anther teacher followed her to Pennsylvania. She had six children and their second child Thomas Coffin died at age two but the surviving children became active in the Anti-Slavery movements and other reforms.” (Source3) Mott in my eyes is the women who started the movement herself and fought for what she thought was right and just for us…show more content…
Mott who still supported the abolition of slavery and women’s rights died in 1880. Stanton helped found the NWSA and was elected president by Susan Anthony in the 1890’s. Stanton died in 1902 and her “Declaration of Sentiments” passed as the 19th amendment in 1920’s. The only person who left of the group Charlotte Woodward got to cast a vote. (Source1) In some parts of the country even though women had rights the father or husband would tell the daughter or wife who to vote for. Sadly neither of them got a chance to vote but sparked a movement. The effects for a short while and a forever were Women had rights, Colleges accepted women in as students, they got to vote after a little while, women could now own property , the Congress passed laws that protected women, women were being accepted and noticed more, they could work jobs that were closed off to them before the movement. The only person who lived long enough to cast a vote who also signed the “Declaration of Sentiments” was Charlotte Wood

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