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Women’s Movement (Rights)
• Improve life= rights
• Fought for
•Political – suffrage (right to vote)
•Social – expanded careers/education
•Economic – workers rights (10 hr work day)
Seneca Falls Convention
• Convention
-Lucretia Mott- organized Convention
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Wrote Declaration of Sentiments and
Grievances
– All men and women are created equal
Other Significant Women
• Susan B. Anthony- Campaigned for
Women’s suffrage
• Sojourner truth- advocate for equal rights
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