LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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Leader of the movement to have all children taught in a common place, not at home.
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Women’s rights activist who was one of the organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention.
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Romantic poet who praised American individualism .
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Escaped slave who succeeded in leading over 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American leader in the women’s rights movement who, in 1848, formulated the first organized demand for woman suffrage in the United States. Stanton received a superior education at home, at the Johnstown Academy, and at Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary, from which she graduated in 1832.
Detailed explanation-4: -Eight years later, in 1848, Stanton and Mott held the first Woman’s Rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York. Stanton authored, “The Declaration of Sentiments, ” which expanded on the Declaration of Independence by adding the word “woman” or “women” throughout.