https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl By: Adam Caye, Ian Sharp, Kalynn Poole, Bella Bonacci, and Divya Bhat en-us 2019-10-21 15:55:06 UTC 2023-07-19 14:51:43 UTC hello@padlet.com accaye https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400398725 - Women's suffrage movement started in 1848
- Women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York
-  Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were the main organizers of the convention
- The people at the convention recited the Declaration of Independence in hopes of achieving the "sacred right of franchise"
- The convention that kicked off the suffrage movement lead to advancements in women's rights in the future
-Petitions were circulated
- Finally in 1920 the 19 amendment , enfranchising women, was ratified ]]> 2019-10-21 16:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400398725 accaye https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400399466 - Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She was born into a Quaker family that was committed to social equality, and she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.

- Alice Paul, 1885-1977
Alice Paul was an American socialist, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist. She was one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

- Elizabeth Candy Stanton, 1815-1902
Elizabeth Candy Stanton was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.

- Lucy Stone, 1818-1893
Lucy Stone was a\n important  U.S. orator, abolitionist, and suffragist. She was a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, and Stone eventually became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree.

- Ida B. Wells, 1862-1931
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.


Picture- Susan B. Anthony]]> 2019-10-21 16:03:33 UTC https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400399466 accaye https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400404114 Women were getting treated different then men, and did not have a lot of rights that men had. ]]> 2019-10-21 16:10:17 UTC https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400404114 krpoole https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400404584 -1848; Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first American women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY. 
-Delegates echoed the Declaration of Independence 
-Declaration of Sentiments contained a list of colonist's complaints and women's grievances
-Women were denied the right to vote, the right to equal educational opportunity, and the right to own property. 
-Following this event, all throughout the 1850s several women's rights conventions took place which lead to some states granting women more legal rights.  ]]> 2019-10-21 16:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400404584 krpoole https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400410771 Despite the great strides made for gender equality, women still face violence, discrimination, and barriers preventing them from equality.
ex.) certain jobs considered "man's work" and women don't succeed as well as them
Many events and women's marches take place to gain equality and awareness to this situation and society is working towards a better more accepting environment.
ex.) women's suffrage parades similar to the one in 1913]]> 2019-10-21 16:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400410771 krpoole https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400416347 "In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer" ]]> 2019-10-21 16:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400416347 krpoole https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400418770 After a long process, finally, on June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, congress passed the 19th amendment that granted women the right to vote. It guarantees all American women the right to vote. Although achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle, victory finally occurred after  decades of agitation and protest.]]> 2019-10-21 16:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400418770 accaye https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400963835 A video about how Anthony played a pivotal role in women's rights.  ]]> 2019-10-22 16:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400963835 ifsharp https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400966563 2019-10-22 16:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400966563 dpbhat https://padlet.com/accaye/ga1c4je928jl/wish/400971225 - Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. She was born into slavery in Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. She is best known for her speech "Ain't I a women" delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights convention. She devoted her life to the abolitionist cause and helped recruit African American troupes for the union army. She became a Methodist, and on June 1, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth. She told her friends: "The Spirit calls me, and I must go," and left to make her way traveling and preaching about the abolition of slavery. Truth died on November 26, 1883 and will always be known for her astounding impacts on Women's rights.
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