Women's Rights Movement Research Paper

Starting from the beginning of time, women have not been treated the same as men. Women were seen as being less than men and they did not deserve the same rights and privileges as men. The topic of whether or not women should be equal to men has been very controversial. In men’s eyes, women were less. The Women’s Rights Movement started the beginning of an event that would later change the world.
The Women’s Rights Movement, which lasted from 1848-1920, started a shift in how women were seen. This movement started with the Seneca Falls Convention. There were two people who organized this convention and played a key role in all of the rights that women got, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.1
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November …show more content…
This was the first major convention towards women’s rights. There were about 100 people who attended the convention. Out of those 100, two-thirds were women, leaving one-third to be males. At the convention, Stanton created the “Declaration of Sentiments, Grievances, and Resolutions.” This declaration changed part of the original preamble: “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal.” This convention began to change how women were treated.7
After the Seneca Falls Convention, the first National Women’s Rights Convention (1850) was held in Worcester, Massachusetts. This convention “launched national efforts to secure…political, legal, and social equality with man.” During this convention, people would go up and present possible solutions, give speeches, and give possible strategies that they felt would help women be more equal. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were among many who were appointed to be the committee who would put on this convention every …show more content…
In May of 1869, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton partnered together to create the National Woman Suffrage Association. They tried to do this by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution. Anthony and Stanton’s goal of creating this was to get voting rights for women. In November, Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell created the American Woman Suffrage Association. They tried to gain women’s rights through amendments to individual state constitutions. Then on December 10, 1869 Wyoming passed the first women’s suffrage law, allowing women to vote in the territory. In 1890 the National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association combined together to create the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Anthony, Stanton, Stone, and Blackwell all realized that they all wanted the same goal of women getting the right to vote, and joined together to be stronger.10
Lucy Stone was like Stanton and Anthony and dedicated her life to getting women’s rights. She was born on August 13, 1818 in West Brookfield, Massachusetts’. She supported the Women’s National Loyal League, and helped found the American Equal Rights Association. As well as creating the American Woman Suffrage Association, she also organized and was elected

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