Womens History

Running head : AMERICAN WOMEN AND COMMUNITY

American Women and Community

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American Women and Community

Prior to Aug . 26 , 1920 women in the United States could not participate in the democratic process . Following the Civil War , American women wanted to have more input into the decisions that would impact their lives . In for women to gain suffrage groups across the nation had to gather together and create a unified effort for change

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 , the first formal conference for woman 's suffrage , challenged America to

a revolution that would endure for more than seven decades before women actually were granted the right to vote . Convened by Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott , the conventions aim was to empower women and invoke change through suffrage for women . Since the Civil War women had begun to feel the need to represent themselves and be able to participate in the decision making process which would affect their daily lives

The catalyst for this gathering was the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in 1840 in London and attended by an American delegation which included a number of women . In attendance were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton , who were forced to sit in ther galleries as observers because they were women . This poor treatment did not rest well with these women of progressive thoughts , and it was decided that they would hold their own convention to discuss social , civil and religious rights of women , 2008 ? 3

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