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| The legal concept that a woman's legal rights were merged with those of her husband, part of the common law of England and the United States throughout most of the 1800s. The idea was described in William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England in the late 1700s. |
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| NY Married Women's Property (1848) |
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| Right of married women to own property in her own name. |
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| The first women's rights convention held in the United States. |
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| Declaration of Sentiments |
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| drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton for the women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Based on the American Declaration of Independence, they demanded equality with men before the law, in education and employment. Here, too, was the first pronouncement demanding that women be given the right to vote. |
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| Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented in Seneca Falls is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States |
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Her best-known speech, Ain't I a Woman? was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention.
Argued that while American antebellum (pre-Civil War) culture often placed white women upon a pedestal and gave them certain privileges (most notably that of not working), this attitude was not extended to blck women. The speech was delivered in response to comments made by a male speaker, apparently in the audience. |
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| 19th Amendmentprohibits each of the states and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. |
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prohibits each of the states and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex.
August 18, 1920 |
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limited the number of hours that a woman or child could work in certain jobs and guaranteed them a minimum wage. The legal result, however, was that men and women were treated differently in the work place. The major justifications were that
- physical differences between men and women would make it dangerous for women to work;
- the chronic fatigue of long hours would result in the deterioration of women's health; and
- future generations would be affected by this deterioration in women's health.
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| National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) |
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| The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, both founded in 1869, were the main suffrage organizations in the U.S. during the 19th century. They pursued the right to vote in different ways, but by 1890 it became necessary to combine efforts to keep the cause alive. The newly formed organization became the most mainstream and nationally visible pro-suffrage group. Its strategy was to push for suffrage at the state level, believing that state-by-state support would eventually force the federal government to pass the amendment. |
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Her second term coincided with the climax of the woman suffrage movement in the U.S., and culminated in the adoption of the 19th amendment in 1920. |
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| founded in 1916 that fought for women's rights during the early 20th century in the US, particularly for the right to vote on the same terms as men. In contrast to other organizations, such as the NAWSA which focused on lobbying individual states and from which the NWP split, the NWP put its priority on the passage of a constitutional amendment ensuing women's suffrage. |
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