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=The Women's Movement= //"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."// -The U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIX Section 1
 * Women couldn't vote until 1920.
 * In the 1800s women were mostly confined to the house.
 * In the 1830s the Women's Movement began to take off; women wanted the same rights as men.
 * One of the first organized Women's Conventions was the Seneca Falls Convention in New York from which came The Seneca Falls Declaration.
 * Some prominent Women's Movement figures were Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Black men were allowed to vote 50 years before women were guaranteed that right. Amendment XIX (women's suffrage amendment) was not ratified until 1920. Throughout the 1800s, women where confined to the house supposedly because "women were . . . models of piety and virtue for their families." (Appleby, Brinkley, Broussard, McPherson, and Ritchie 101) They were to tend to the house and help raise children. Women were not expected to be educated and were discouraged from obtaining higher education. That changed with the opening of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837. It was the first female-only institution for higher education. Around the same time as the opening of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, women's reform movements began to emerge. One of the most famous (and one of the first of the organized movements) was the Seneca Falls Convention in New York (1848) arranged by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. From the Seneca Falls Convention came The Seneca Falls Declaration². It reworded parts of the Declaration of Independence to extend equality to women: "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men //and women// are created equal. . ." for example. Stanton along with Susan B. Anthony also campaigned for the right to vote as part of equality; women continued to fight for rights and reform and were eventually granted suffrage among other rights. Today, sexism still exists, but, with tolerance and changing social norms it has certainly diminished since the 1800s.


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Reference
1. Appleby, Joyce, Alan Brinkley, Albert S. Broussard, James M. McPherson, and -Donald A. Ritchie. //The American Vision Modern Times//. -United States of America: Glencoe, 2008. Print. 2. Allen, Sharon D., Renée Angle, et al. //Kore Press//. Lisa -Bowden, Web. 2 Oct 2009. -<[]>.