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__Elizabeth Cady Stanton__
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Good morning America! I am Elizabeth Cady Stanton and I led movements for women’s rights in America. The reason is women’s rights have been neglected for a long period of time. Even when men were fighting for their rights, the people’s rights, women were not included. For example, the Mayflower Compact, only men signed. Therefore, I wanted represent all women whose rights have been abandoned and guarantee each woman’s rights especially suffrage.
 * I am so glad to meet you Ms. Stanton! Can you briefly introduce yourself?**

Oh no. My husband Henry Stanton and my cousin Gerrit Smith and I were abolitionists. That was my initial goal; abolish slavery and freedom to the slaves. Also I met Henry at Smith’s house. Anyway after our marriage we flew over to London where I was given an opportunity by getting to know Lucretia Mott. Surprisingly, she was involved in all associations that I was interested in, especially anti-slavery and women’s rights movements.
 * So was gaining women’s rights was your initial goal?**

She and I tried to speak at meetings that we attended in London, but we were not allowed just because we were not men. We were very furious about that. Then later, I encountered Quaker Jane Hunt. We started to thinking about holding a convention about neglected women’s rights. And the first convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. This was when women’s suffrage was issued. Plus, I was the leader of this project, I can say. About twenty years later, with other companions, dear Susan Anthony and Lucy Stone, we established the American Equal Rights Association. This document became popular in Kansas and African slaves suffrage and women’s suffrage were about to be given by the sovereignty. However… this, my dream, didn’t come true.
 * How did Ms. Mott influence you to fight for women’s rights especially the voting rights?**

Hmm… well, after couple of years, Susan and I published The Revolution, which is obviously mentioning about suffrage. Then we formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. The other association was also established which is called the American Woman Suffrage Association. We thought having two other associations with the same purpose was not good, so we were combined as the National Woman Suffrage Association and I was the first person to be elected as a president in this group.
 * Then when was women’s suffrage granted? And how?**


 * Wow! I am amazed. Thanks to your effort that you brought up issues about unfair rights of women in the United States!**

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//* Primary Source 1 //

I should feel exceedingly diffident to appear before you wholly unused as I am to public speaking, were I not nerved by a sense of right and duty—did I not feel that the time had fully come for the question of woman's wrongs to be laid before the public—did I not believe that woman herself must do this work—for woman alone can understand the height and the depth, the length and the breadth of her own degradation and woe. Man cannot speak for us—because he has been educated to believe that we differ from him so materially, that he cannot judge of our thoughts, feelings and opinions by his own. Moral beings can only judge of others by themselves—the moment they give a different nature to any of their own kind they utterly fail. The drunkard was hopelessly lost until it was discovered that he was governed by the same laws of mind as the sober man. Then with what magic power, by kindness and love, was he raised from the slough of despond and placed rejoicing on high land. Let a man once settle the question that woman does not think and feel like himself and he may as well undertake to judge of the amount of intellect and sensation of any of the animal creation as of woman's nature. He can know but little with certainty, and that but by observation.

//__[DBQ] By saying "moral being can only judge of others by themselves" what did she mean? Doesn't this statement justify what men did to women?__//

//* Secondary Source 1//  However, it was not until 1848 that [| Stanton] and [|Lucretia Mot]__[|t]__ organised the Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls. Stanton's resolution that it was "the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise" was passed, and this became the focus of the group's campaign over the next few years.

In 1866 Stanton, [|Lucretia Mott], [|Susan B. Anthony] and [|Lucy Stone] established the American Equal Rights Association. The following year, the organisation became active in Kansas where Negro suffrage and woman suffrage were to be decided by popular vote. However, both ideas were rejected at the polls.

In 1868 Stanton and [|Susan B. Anthony] established the political weekly, //The Revolution//, and the following year the two women formed a new organisation, the [|National Woman Suffrage Association] (NWSA). The organisation condemned the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments as blatant injustices to women. The NWSA also advocated easier divorce and an end to discrimination in employment and pay.

Another group, the [|American Woman Suffrage Association] (AWSA), was also active in the campaign for women's rights and by the 1880s it became clear that it was not a good idea to have two rival groups campaigning for votes for women. After several years of negotiations, the AWSA and the NWSA merged in 1890 to form the [|National American Woman Suffrage Association] (NAWSA). Stanton was elected as NAWSA first president but was replaced by [|Susan B. Anthony] in 1892.

__//[DBQ] Did the Women's Rights Convention have a great effect on Stanton's other accomplishments and gaining women's rights? Can you say it was the start of guaranteeing women's suffrage?//__

//* Secondary Source 2 //

Stanton had an early introduction to the reform movements, including encounters as a young woman with fugitive slaves at the home of her cousin [|Gerrit Smith]. It was at Smith's home that she also met her husband Henry Stanton. Soon after their marriage in 1840 they traveled to London, where Henry Stanton was a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention. There she met [| Lucretia Mott], the Quaker teacher who served in many of the associated Temperance, Anti-Slavery, and Women's Rights organizations with which Stanton is associated. Denied her seat at the convention, as were all the women delegates, Mott discussed with Stanton the need for a convention on women's rights. The plan came to fruition when Mott again encountered Stanton in the summer of 1848 in the home of fellow Quaker Jane Hunt. After a month of missionary work on the Cattaraugus Reservation of the Seneca Nation, James and Lucretia Mott were attending the annual meeting of the Religious Society of Friends at Junius, near Seneca Falls, and staying at nearby Auburn with Lucretia Mott's sister, Martha Coffin Wright.

__//[DBQ] If Stanton was interested in anti-slavery movement, could she have accomplished what she had done for women's rights?//__

<__Bibliography__>
 * Cady Stanton, Elizabeth. "Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Woman's Rights, page 1: Stanton and Anthony Papers Online." __Home Page: Stanton and Anthony Papers Online__. 8 Dec. 2008 .


 * "Elizabeth Cady Stanton." __Spartacus Educational - Home Page__. 8 Dec. 2008 .


 * "Elizabeth Cady Stanton." __National Park Service - Experience Your America__. 8 Dec. 2008 .