Thursday, March 5, 2009
Women's Rights
In the 1800's the Women's Rights Movement gained steam because a group of Women came together at the Seneca Falls Convention. While there these women drafted a document called the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. I have provided a LINK for you. Please peruse this document and tell me the following: How is this similar to the Declaration of Independence? What were some of the rights the women wanted? Who was the Declaration of Sentiments directed at? How effective do YOU think this document is/was?
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the women wanted the right to vote,but the the three strongest protesters susan b anthoney, monet,and stanley never got to see a vote but if they did they would probaly be very proud of america
ReplyDeleteBlake, good answer but you failed to specifically answer my questions. I'll give you 1 EC point for this.
ReplyDeleteI think the link was related to the DOI because the women wanted to have all rights the men have listed as the following; right to vote, own there own property, life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness. Their all men and women are created equal.Declaration of Sentiments directed is at women. this document was effective because when they talk about the rights its pracitcally the same but added women in it not just men so that got the people changing their mind about the fairness between the men and women
ReplyDeleteBy Grant Brandau Per. 1
The first thing that makes the Declaration of Sentiments the same as the Declaration of Independence is, it states life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are woman’s inalienable rights. Some rights that woman wanted were; not having to give up everything that they owned before they were married, keep money they earn, and suffrage. The Declaration of Sentiment was directed at men for equality between woman and men. The Declaration of Sentiment was effective over time, but wasn’t really attained for many years to come, about seventy-five years.
ReplyDeleteAmanda Knapp.
The Declaration of Sentiments is the similiar to the Declaration of Independence because it starts out with the same preamble and goes on stating the unalienable rights but uses mankind as the person who is the tyrant and not the king. The women wanted equality with the men and wanted the right to vote. They did not want to be the man's possession. The Declaration of Sentiments is directed at Man or Mankind. I think this document was very effective even though they took the words from the Declaration of Independence, but just changed king to He or His or Man or Mankind. They needed to put more creativity in the Declaration Of Sentiments.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was a very creative way to get their demands out there. And ahah its similar to the declaration of independence because it pretty much IS the dec ind but with few words changed. I mean i totally would have done that! So smart, pretty much no word besides a few word changes and bada boom! Your point is there! The Declaration of Sentements was aimed at the men, because they weren't respecting women the way they all (Should) do today (; The women simply wanted to be treated like people instead of purchases, they wanted to have a voice! They wanted to vote and be able to say whats on their mind. I think this was a very effective document because look at women today! They can do whatever they want! They can do anything boys can (; , play football, win olympic medals, lead courtrooms, write books, and even run for president! Women have come such a long way and to think all of it started from just a peice of paper! (: Love this topic.
ReplyDeleteGrant- excellent analysis, well done, as usual!
ReplyDeleteAmanda- good analysis as well, but, how effective do YOU think it was?
Josh- I like your take, good analysis.
Maddy- AWESOME, great analysis, and I couldn't agree more with your point of view, it was a brilliant idea to use such an amazing document as the Dec of Ind