Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first woman to start the women’s rights movement. It all started in London, when she and another fellow American, Lucretia Coffin Mott were attending an abolitionist meeting. Because they were women, they were forced to sit in the back so nobody would see them. When they went back to America, she organized the first women’s rights convention. She held it at her home at Seneca Falls. There, Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. She wrote it using the Declaration of Independence as her model. For an example, the Declaration of independence states that “All men are created equal”, but Stanton wrote, All men AND women are created equal”. During the Civil War, Stanton worked hard for abolishing slavery and women’s rights. When her abolition group favored voting rights for blacks but not for women, she left the group. Then, Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. She was the president up until 1890. rights, women, stanton, women’s, declaration, wrote, amendment, woman, men, independence, because, until, today, suffrage, states, started, slavery, sentiments, movement, group, first, equal, created, constitution, cady, became, back, america, abolitionist, abolishing, 19th, year, write, worked, woman’s, willard, whole, wasn’t, war, voting, using, united, troy, susan, start, stanton, elizabeth, sponsor, sit, seneca, senator