USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In preparation for the convention, Stanton drafted a “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, ” which she modeled after the Declaration of Independence.

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: -Text of the Declaration of Sentiments, from the collections of the Library of Congress. During the summer of 1848 abolitionist Lucretia Mott left her home in Philadelphia and headed for upstate New York to attend a Quaker meeting and visit her pregnant sister, Martha Coffin Wright.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Declaration of Sentiments is modeled after the Declaration of Independence because they are both have the same wording, and they cover the same concepts but it is directed toward women wanting their rights.