WMS 50 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-3: Body Politic, Coverture, Seneca Falls Convention
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Girls and women were among those who took to heart the american revolution"s principles of independence, freedom, liberty, equality, and rights by raising questions about how universal the principles were. As they did so, they invoked new concepts, especially woman"s rights and the equality of the sexes. Women in wartime: women"s claims to rights derived, from their participation in the war of. What differences did the revolution make: historians agree that public discussions about equality and rights called attention to the mismatch between revolutionary ideology and republican practice. Although revolutionary-era americans spoke about the rights of woman, they created no social movement aimed at securing those rights. The seneca falls convention of 1848 in context: the year 1848 witnessed the first two women"s rights conventions in american, seneca falls convention, national convention assembled in worcester, massachusetts, thereafter, until 1859, conventions were held yearly. A women"s rights movement was born: declaration of sentiments, modeled on the declaration of independence.
