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Women's Rights

POEM!

**W**omen are gaining some rights. **O**pertunity to speak your mind. **M**en think their in control. **E**veryone deserves having their own rights. **N**o girl had any education **S**eneca Falls convention wanted equal rights **R**ights make you who you are today **I**f women didnt have rights today men only would. **G**rimke sisters cam from a slave owners **H**aving an equal rights for everyone **T**rying to have respect for all **S**usan B Anthony wanted to set women free.



Susan B Anthony was born in Adams Massachuttes on February 15, 1820. Susan died March 13, 1906. Susan had three sister. Her parents names were Dainel and Lucy. When Susan was growing up her parents worked with anti-slavery movement. Susan and her family signed the Deceleration of Sentiments. Susan dedicated her life to "the cause" the womens rights movement. Susan and her long life friend Elizabeth C. Stanton worked with the womens rights movment for 50 years. Also, Susan gave 75-100 speeches throughout her 50 years in womens rights. Susan had a long life in womens rights



 Elizabeth had a great deal in the women's rights movement. Elizabeth was born Novemeber 12, 1815 and she died October 26, 1902 at 87 years old. Most of the years she lived she wanted women to have equal rights just as the men had. Elizabeth married an aboiltionist Henery Brewster Stanton. Elizabeth and Henery did not have any children together. In 1848 Elizabeth and Henery got in to a Women's Rights Convenetion at Seneca Falls. This started the Seneca Falls Convention. The law that "the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise". This law was passed. Also, in 1866 Stanton and Sussan B. Anthony established the American Equal Rights Assocititon. Elizabeth had a great deal in women's rights.

<span style="color: #be1e55; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 120%;">(Life before rights) <span style="color: #be1e55; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 120%;">In the whole nineteenth centery women had no political rights to anything. In 1870 women were allowed to keep their earnings. In 1839 the law was passes that women could have their marriage broken. Before that their husbands were to keep every penny they would make. In 1891 women were forced to live with their husbands so they couldnt leave with out their permission. Colorado is the first to adopt the womens rights everywhere in 1893. Women did have their rights before the Seneca Falls Convention.

<span style="color: #aa46e7; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 120%;">(Seneca Falls Convention) <span style="color: #aa46e7; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 120%;">In the 1800's women did not have a lot rights. But, one thing that gave the women rights in 1848 is the Seneca Falls Convention. The convention took place in New York. This was supposed to be the start of the women's rights movement. The leaders of the convention we E.C. Stanton and Susan B. Anothony. They wanted equality for women at school, work, church, and before the law. This is mainly what they convention was about. The Decleration of Senteiments was the Decleration of Independence for women. Both Elizabeth and Susan signed this. This convention was a great part in the movement for womens rights in 1848.