PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE WOMENS MOVEMENT
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Question
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Which of the following statements does NOT describe Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
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She helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association
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She helped author the Declaration of Sentiments
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She was a brilliant speaker and traveled widely, giving lectures and speeches.
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She felt a woman’s place was in the home.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1878, she drafted a federal suffrage amendment that was introduced in every Congress thereafter until women were granted the right to vote in 1920. With Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage she compiled the first three volumes of the six-volume “History of Woman Suffrage.” She also published “The Woman’s Bible, ” 2 vol.
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