[5] Declaration of Sentiments on the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

Seneca Falls Convention (1848) = ?

Marked the beginning of the 70-year-long struggle for women's suffrage.

Who experienced misogyny at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840 London? What did they do as a result?

Infuriated to experience discrimination and objectification at an event where everyone was supposedly against the discrimination and objectification of human beings, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, veterans of the anti-slavery crusade, organized a gathering of first-wave feminists in Seneca Falls in upstate New York.

The Declaration of Sentiments = ?

Modeled on the Declaration of Independence, this document added "women" to Jefferson's axiom, "all men are created equal." And in place of Jefferson's list of injustices committed by George III, Stanton condemned the "injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman."

Who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

What were the "injuries and usurpations" Stanton mentioned?

Denying women...
- The right to vote.
- Access to education (college) and employment.
- Control over their property and wages (giving it to their husbands instead).
- Custody of children in the case of divorce.
- Independent legal status after they marry.
- Freedom to choose a "sphere of action" aside from the home.

Equal rights became the rallying cry of the early movement for ____________'s rights, and equal rights meant claiming access to all the prevailing definitions of _____________ ______________.

^ Women
^ American
^ Freedom

"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the _________ of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and nature's God __________ them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind required that they should declare the _________ that impel them to such a course."

^ Family
^ Entitle
^ Causes

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for ________ and transient causes...when a long train of _________ and __________________, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute _________________, it is their duty to throw off such a government, and to provide new guards for their future _____________. Such has been the patient sufferance of the ____________ under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled."

^ Light
^ Abuses
^ Usurpations
^ Despotism
^ Security
^ Women

What does Stanton say about marriage?

"He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead."

"After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if ________ and the owner of property, he has ________ her to support a government which recognizes her only when her property can be made _____________ to it."

^ Single
^ Taxed
^ Profitable

"He __________ her in Church, as well as State, but a ________________ position, claiming Apostolic authority for her _____________ from the ministry, and, with some exceptions, from any public participation in the affairs of the Church."

^ Allows
^ Subordinate
^ Exclusion

"Now, in view of this entire disenfranchisement of ____-________ of the people of this country, their social and religious __________________---in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently ____________ of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all of the ___________ and _________________ that belong to them as _____________ of the United States."

^ One-Half
^ Degradation
^ Deprived
^ Rights
^ Privileges
^ Citizens

What was Stanton's message to the haters?

Hater's gonna hate, but feminism and women's suffrage aren't going anywhere.

Which groups of people have better rights than women?

- White Men
- African-American Men
- Native American Men