USA HISTORY

LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861

ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT IMPORTANT FIGURES IN THE FIGHT TO END SLAVERY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ was denied the right to speak at a convention of abolitionists in London because she was a women.
A
Harriet Tubman
B
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
C
Sojourner Truth
D
Frederick Douglass
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Mott met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Conference in London. Though sent as official delegates to the convention, six American women including Mott and Stanton were denied the right to participate because of their gender. The two soon agreed that the status of women must be advanced.

Detailed explanation-2: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist, human rights activist and one of the first leaders of the women’s rights movement. She came from a privileged background, but decided early in life to fight for equal rights for women. Stanton worked closely with Susan B.

Detailed explanation-3: -Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements, Elizabeth Cady Stanton formulated the agenda for woman’s rights that guided the struggle well into the 20th century.

Detailed explanation-4: -Heralded as the first women’s rights convention in the United States, it was held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 and 20, 1848. At that conference, activist and leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted The Declaration of Sentiments, which called for women’s equality and suffrage.

Detailed explanation-5: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American leader in the women’s rights movement. In 1848, at the Seneca Falls Convention, she drafted the first organized demand for women’s suffrage in the United States.

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