USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after the Declaration of Independence, but with the express goal of granting women the rights and freedoms that the Declaration of Independence granted to men. On the second day of the convention, the resolutions would again be debated over and put to a vote.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after the U.S. Declaration of Independence and borrowed language from the antislavery movement, demanding that women be given full rights of citizenship. Sixty-eight women and 32 men signed the document.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Declaration of Sentiments, written primarily by Stanton, was based on the Declaration of Independence to parallel the struggles of the Founding Fathers with those of the women’s movement.

Detailed explanation-4: -July 19-20, 1848 In 1848, social reformers-largely abolitionists–gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss women’s rights at what became known as the Seneca Falls Convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the conferences organizers, led the drafting of the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.

Detailed explanation-5: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments to dramatize the denied citizenship claims of elite women during a period when the early republic’s founding documents privileged white propertied males.