Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist and a feminist. Her important issues with American society were that, wo manpower indispensable to be included in society, slaves pick outed to be free, and on that point involve to be ecumenic voter turnout for all. Her first cousin, Gerrit smith introduced her to the Anti-Slavery movement. When she married her husband, they were actively complicated in the abolitionist movement. She confronted spiritual questions and womens individualism.\nIn order to make better American life, Stanton took action. She dined with lawyers, judges, and legislators who debated legal reform and the property rights of married women. She initiated the need for a womens rights assembly. In 1848, at Seneca Falls, she held the first womens rights convention. At the convention, the women demanded that they had rights to the elective franchise. The women created a Declaration of Sentiments, and resolutions arguing that at that place needed to be an clo sing curtain to womens taxation without representation. in that respect was a second convention in Rochester a few weeks late(a)r. There was also a modest petition lawsuit for womens suffrage in late 1848. Stanton wrote many advocacy letters, speeches, and novels. She wrote in order to illustrate that men were undermining the proper sphere of womankind, and they needed to call order upon it. Stanton make sure to address tribe directly; she knew how to work crowds to be in favor of her ideas.\nStanton had a lot success in get people on her side. However, politically and legally, there was little through with(p) to improve the lives of slaves and women. Petitions for property rights and suffrage spread throughout several(prenominal) states. These became a commonplace for many womens rights advocates. Additionally, the letters and speeches were affix in the press. Stanton was an interesting historical figure in the guidance that she carried herself, and went about reforming s ociety. She argued that neither men, nor women, could decree well alone; society...