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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Seneca Falls declaration of sentiments
		We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
		He has created a false public sentiment by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women, by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society, are not only tolerated, but deemed of little account in man.
		He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/se/Seneca_Falls_declaration_of_sentiments (696 words)

	REPORT of the WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION
		The Declaration of Sentiments, offered for the acceptance of the Convention, was then read by E. A proposition was made to have it re-read by paragraph, and after much consideration, some changes were suggested and adopted.
		The reading of the Declaration was called for, an addition having been inserted since the morning session.
		Resolved, That the women of this country ought to be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation, by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, not their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.
	www.luminet.net /~tgort/convent.htm (1859 words)

	The Seneca Falls Convention: Teaching about the Rights of Women and the Heritage of the Declaration of Independence. ...
		At Seneca Falls, New York in the summer of 1848, a group of American men and women met to discuss the legal limitations imposed on women during this period.
		Stanton's Declaration of Sentiments proclaimed that "all men and women were created equal" and that the undersigned would employ all methods at their disposal to right these wrongs.
		The Declaration of Sentiments can be incorporated into lessons on the Declaration of Independence or on the ideas of the Revolution, a lesson on life in America in the 1840s, or specialized units focusing on reform movements or women's history.
	ericdigests.org /2002-1/women.html (1668 words)

	Seneca Falls Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Seneca Falls Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19 to July 20, 1848, was the first women's rights convention held in the United States, and as a result is often called the birthplace of the feminist movement.
		At Seneca Falls, New York, in the summer of 1848, a group of American men and women met to discuss the legal limitations imposed on women during this period.
		Their consciousness of those limitations had been raised by their participation in the anti-slavery movement; eventually they used the language and structure of the Declaration of Independence to stake their claim to the rights they felt women were entitled to as American citizens in the Declaration of Sentiments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seneca_Falls_convention (1112 words)

	Declaration
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	Seneca Falls Convention
		The Seneca Falls Convention, which launched the woman suffrage movement in the United States, was held on July 19-20, 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York.
		Seneca Falls was the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who, with Lucretia Mott, conceived and directed the convention.
		At the 1848 convention, Stanton read the "Declaration of Sentiments," a statement of grievances and demands patterned closely after the Declaration of Independence.
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	senecafalls.rights
		The Declaration of Sentiments was cast in the model of the 1776 Declaration of Independence: a statement of principles followed by a listing of specific grievances.
		Moreover, the Declaration of Sentiments identified a structural strain--fundamental areas of conflict between the particular group (women) and the dominant culture.
		By the end of the second day, the Declaration of Sentiments and all twelve resolutions were approved, and the assembly agreed to meet in two weeks, at Rochester, to continue their business.
	www.lclark.edu /~ria/senecafalls.rights.html (2481 words)

	Declaration of Sentiments - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Declaration of Sentiments
		In US history, document adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 that called for women to have equal rights to men in areas such as education, ownership of property, and voting.
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	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Declaration+of+Sentiments (246 words)

	Seneca Falls Convention -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At (Click link for more info and facts about Seneca Falls) Seneca Falls, (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York in the summer of 1848, a group of American men and women met to discuss the legal limitations imposed on women during this period.
		The Convention issued a document titled the Declaration of Sentiments, a statement written by Stanton and modeled on the (The document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain) Declaration of Independence.
		Americans from every background believe that the ideals of the Revolution are alive and well, and applicable to life in the present, just as the women of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention felt those ideals spoke to them.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/se/seneca_falls_convention.htm (991 words)

	Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments - TheBestLinks.com - United States Declaration of Independence, 1848, New York, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments - TheBestLinks.com - United States Declaration of Independence, 1848, New York,...
		Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, United States Declaration of...
		The Sentiments used the form of the United States Declaration of Independence.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Seneca_Falls_Declaration_of_Sentiments.html (751 words)

	Seneca Falls Convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Chamberlain, one of the mill's early owners, was among the 32 men who signed the Declaration of Sentiments at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention for women's...
		Seneca Falls is rich in history and served as the location for the first women's rights convention in 1848.
		Their consciousness of those limitations had been raised by their participation in the anti-slavery movement; eventually they used the language and structure of the Declaration of Independence to stake their claim to the rights they felt women were entitled to as American citizens.
	www.wikiverse.org /seneca-falls-convention (1110 words)

	SENECA term papers, research papers on SENECA and essays at AcaDemon
		The "Declaration of Sentiments" is probably not the very first piece of feminist writing, but it did signify that feminists would ac-cept nothing but a major change in the way that society treated women.
		The paper explains that, although the message of both Perpetua and Seneca is about the importance of doing what is right, regardless of the interpretation of the larger world, their different backgrounds made their own contemporaries view the lives of these two and what they represented in very different terms.
		Most importantly, At the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 Stanton resolved "that it is the duty of the women of this country to secure themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
	www.academon.com /lib/essay/seneca.html (2824 words)

	The Seneca Falls Convention: Teaching about the Rights of Women and the Heritage of the Declaration of Independence. ...
		The Declaration of Sentiments provides an opportunity for teachers to bring historic documents into their classrooms in a variety of social studies courses.
		The Declaration of Sentiments is brief, and the language used is familiar to most who encounter it.
		The Declaration of Sentiments can be incorporated into lessons on the Declaration of Independence or on the ideas of the Revolution, a lesson on life in America in the 1840s, or specialized units focusing on reform movements or women's history.
	www.ericdigests.org /2002-1/women.html (1668 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -SENECA FALLS CONVENTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Seneca Falls Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19-20, 1848, was the first public political meeting in the United States dealing with women's rights.
		It issued the "Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments" (modeled on the Declaration of Independence), enumerating the ways in which men had oppressed American women, including depriving them of the vote, of equal property rights, of equal access to employment and education—in short, of the full rights and privileges of citizens.
		The Seneca Falls Convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two Quakers whose concern for women's rights was heightened when Mott, as a woman, was denied a seat at an international antislavery meeting in London.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_078100_senecafallsc.htm (335 words)

	Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments is a document signed in 1848 by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men to the first women's rights convention in Falls New York.
		We hold these truths to be self-evident: all men and women are created equal; they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life and the pursuit of happiness; that to these rights governments are instituted deriving their powers from the consent of the governed.
		He has created a false public sentiment giving to the world a different code morals for men and women by which delinquencies which exclude women from society are only tolerated but deemed of little account man.
	www.freeglossary.com /Seneca_Falls_Declaration_of_Sentiments (915 words)

	First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, 1848. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Then, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a Seneca Falls housewife and mother of three sons, sat down with a small group of Quaker and abolitionist women, and decided that these wrongs should be made into rights.
		They called for a Convention, open to the public, to be held in Seneca Falls at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, July 19th and 20th, 1848.
		There they presented a Declaration of Sentiments, based on the language and content of the Declaration of Independence.
	www.nps.gov /wori/senecafalls1848.htm (248 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Ask students first why this powerful polemic is modeled on the Declaration of Independence (available at the National Archives website).
		Have students write two newspaper editorials responding to the argument of the Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments," one rejecting it and the other applauding it.
		To what extent were the ideas expounded at Seneca Falls dependent on a change in the cultural climate for their success?
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=283 (1202 words)

	Seneca Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Seneca Falls is known as the Birthplace of Women’s Rights in the United States.
		Seneca Falls was also the home of Amelia Jenks Bloomer, for whom bloomers were named.
		Seneca Falls is also the home of Cayuga Lake State Park.
	www.fingerlakes.com /senecafalls.htm (243 words)

	Encyclopedia: Seneca Falls Convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Seneca Falls is a village located in Seneca County, New York.
		July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining.
		A declaration of independence is a proclamation of the independence of a newly formed or reformed independent state, usually from a part or the whole of the territory of another nation, or a document containing such a declaration.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Seneca-Falls-Convention (1944 words)

	Seneca Falls Convention
		Before the convention, Stanton and Mott prepared the Declaration of Sentiments to outline their grievances and demands.
		Stanton was happy to see that the Declaration of Sentiments was being printed in newspapers because it helped to make people aware of the injustices that existed in America.
		Water falls over the words of the Declaration and the names of its signers in the Women's Right's National Historic Park in Seneca Falls, NY.
	www.geocities.com /delilah024/senecafalls.html (300 words)

	CNN - First lady helps celebrate founding of women's movement - July 16, 1998
		SENECA FALLS, New York (CNN) -- In this small town in upstate New York, a group of women who believed they were equal with men launched a movement that changed much of the world.
		Three days later, their "Declaration of Sentiments" was presented at the Women's Rights Convention.
		The path to Seneca Falls also took Mott, Stanton and others through what is now Victor, New York, to consult with a group of Iroquois Indian women who held the power to select male chiefs and control allocations and communications within their tribe.
	www.cnn.com /US/9807/16/seneca.falls.anniversary (572 words)

	Seneca Falls Convention -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Seneca Falls was the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who, along with Lucretia Mott, conceived and directed the convention.
		Lowlands in the north that are forested with oak and hickory rise to a plateau region in the south that contains maple, birch, and beech trees.
		Exhibit featuring documents relating to the assembly held on July 19-20, 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the woman suffrage movement in the United States, presented by the Library of Congress, based in Washington, D.C. Includes the roll of honor and newspaper clippings.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9066752 (872 words)

	Seneca Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Seneca Falls Declaration - 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments - A peer document to the Declaration of Independence
		Seneca Falls Documentary Project - Documentary film that tells the story of teenage girls discovering their heritage, strength, and creativity.
		The Seneca Falls Convention - A short history from the Smithsonian Institute of events surrounding the Seneca Falls Convention.
	www.findly.com /seneca-falls.htm (465 words)

	Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is almost identical to the Declaration of Independence in the preamble, except for the assertion that "all men and women are created equal." It is also divided into three main parts, as is the Declaration of Independence.
		Or ask them to choose one or two contemporary issues that did not appear in the Declaration of Sentiments and to consider why they are important today but were not stated publicly then.
		Contrast between the Declaration of Sentiments, with its attempt to reflect revolutionary writing and therefore revolutionary, egalitarian ideals, and Stanton's own account of her life, designed to emphasize her own experiences, which results in a more direct and personal style.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/stanton.html (531 words)

	Girls Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls New York USA 1998 < Projects < Girls International Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On July 19, 1998 fifteen girls from GIF presented the Girls' Declaration of sentiments at Seneca Falls on the annivesary of the Womens' Declaration of Sentiments.
		Modeled after the original Declaration of Sentiments developed in Seneca Falls 150 years ago by suffragists, the Girls' Declaration defines an agenda for the Girls Movement, just as the Declaration of 1848 defined an agenda for the first wave of the Women's Movement.
		The Girls' Declaration was unveiled at the Closing Ceremony of Celebrate '98, the sesquicentennial celebration of the First Women's Rights Convention, and received a standing ovation.
	www.girlsforum.org /projects/girlsdeclaration.htm (1272 words)

	Today in History: January 3
		Declaration and Protest of the Women of the United States by the National Woman Suffrage Association [detail],
		The Declaration of Sentiments signed by Stanton, Mott, and other participants called for the extension of basic civil rights to women.
		Examine the Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention assembled in Philadelphia on December 4, 1833 which is in the collection An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/today/jan03.html (673 words)

	Counselor Resources Article
		The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was the first women's rights meeting.
		Its Declaration of Sentiments used the Declaration of Independence as a model.
		Underline the parts of the Declaration of Sentiments that are different from the Declaration of Independence.
	counselorresources.com /c/@7bU79TrXANZ1./Pages/article.html?article@JWW574C (313 words)

	Women's History — Declaration of Sentiments
		The Seneca Falls Declaration is considered by many to be the most important document of the nineteenth-century American woman's movement.
		It was adopted at a meeting of 300 people which focused on the "social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman," and was held at the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19, 1848.
		Only a few days before the convention was scheduled to begin, Stanton, Mott, and others drew up the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, using the Declaration of Independence as a model.
	teacher.scholastic.com /researchtools/articlearchives/womhst/declar.htm (1415 words)

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