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PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973

THE WOMENS MOVEMENT

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The convention at Seneca Falls was the start of a national women’s rights movement. One of the leaders of the national movement was ____ She was the daughter of an abolitionist. She said women should get equal pay and should go to college. She also wanted coeducation, where males and females go to school together
A
Harriett Beecher Stowe
B
Emily Dickinson
C
Angelina Grimke
D
Susan B. Anthony
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leading women’s rights advocate who was a driving organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention.

Detailed explanation-2: -Seneca Falls Convention, assembly held on July 19–20, 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the woman suffrage movement in the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.

Detailed explanation-5: -Modeled after the Declaration of Independence, it outlined women’s inferior status and included a radical demand for suffrage. After Seneca Falls, women’s rights conventions became annual events, where women met to discuss educational opportunities, divorce reform, property rights, and sometimes labor issues.

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