It Began With a Tea Party:

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It Began With a Tea Party A Story of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
By Donna Rissky
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How It Began

• It was 70 years after the American Revolution
• It All Started With Tea Party
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes the Declaration of
  Sentiments, based on framework of Declaration of
  Independence

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Declaration Of Sentiments
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all
men and women are created equal that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable
rights that among these are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness that to secure these
rights governments are instituted, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed.

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Stantons Motivation

• Married women legally dead in the eyes of the law
• Women were not allowed to vote
• Women had to submit to laws when they had no
  voice in their formation
• Married women had no property rights
• Husbands had legal power over and responsibility
  for their wives to the extent that they could
  imprison or beat them with impunity
• Divorce and Child Custody Laws favored Men
• And the List Went On

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The Movement Expands

• More Women Joined the Fight
• Susan B Anthony
• Matilda Joselyn Gage
• Lucy Stone
• Ida B Wells Barnette

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The 2nd Wave

• Most People Assume the Movement of the 60s was
  the Beginning of the Womens Rights Movement
• The 60s was Actually a 2nd wave of Activism that
  Washed into the Public Consciousness

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The prejudice against color, of which we hear so
much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is
produced by the same cause, and manifested very
much in the same way. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Work Cited

• http//womenshistory.about.com/od/60s70s/

http//www.nps.gov/wori/ecs.htm

• http//www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.htm
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• http//education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/
  entry/StantonEC

• http//odur.let.rug.nl/usa/D/1826-1850/women/sene
  ca.htm

• Banner, Lois."Elizabeth Cady Stanton A Radical
  for Women's Rights." Addison-Wesley Publishers,
  1997