Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American activist who led the nineteenth-century women's suffrage movement alongside Susan B.
Anthony.
She organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and drafted its Declaration of Sentiments, modeled on the Declaration of Independence: All men and women are created equal.
Her advocacy extended beyond voting rights to divorce reform and women's property rights.
Opposing human bondage
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
- liberationRelease from constraint
- moral reformEffort to improve conduct
Frederick Douglass · social justice · temperance · progressive · reformer · activist · humanitarian · philanthropist
Historic New York reform gathering
- women's suffrageVoting rights for females
- voting rightsEntitlement to elect officials
- enfranchisementGranting citizenship rights
- ballotVoting document
Susan B. Anthony · suffragette · feminist pioneer · petition · campaign · franchise · electorate · amendment
Freedoms inherent to personhood
- equalitySame status for all
- justiceFair treatment under law
- egalitarianismPhilosophy of universal equality
- gender equalityEqual treatment regardless sex
women's autonomy · individual rights · rationalism · freethought · secularism · liberalism · moral philosophy
One who teaches formally
- public speakingAddressing a live audience
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- persuasionConvincing through reasoning
address · discourse · articulate · oratory · debate · advocacy · podium · delivery
Author of short prose
- authorCreator of written works
- pamphleteerWriter of political tracts
- editorialistOne who writes opinions
- correspondentJournalist covering distant events
diarist · chronicler · manifestos · letters · speeches · commentator · publicist
antislavery
Opposing human bondage
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
- liberationRelease from constraint
Frederick Douglass · moral reform · social justice · temperance · progressive · reformer · activist · humanitarian · philanthropist · ethics
Seneca Falls
Historic New York reform gathering
- women's suffrageVoting rights for females
- voting rightsEntitlement to elect officials
- enfranchisementGranting citizenship rights
Susan B. Anthony · ballot · suffragette · feminist pioneer · petition · campaign · franchise · electorate · amendment · civil rights
natural rights
Freedoms inherent to personhood
- equalitySame status for all
- justiceFair treatment under law
- egalitarianismPhilosophy of universal equality
gender equality · women's autonomy · individual rights · rationalism · freethought · secularism · liberalism · moral philosophy
lecturer
One who teaches formally
- public speakingAddressing a live audience
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
persuasion · address · discourse · articulate · oratory · debate · advocacy · podium · delivery · diction
essayist
Author of short prose
- authorCreator of written works
- pamphleteerWriter of political tracts
- editorialistOne who writes opinions
correspondent · diarist · chronicler · manifestos · letters · speeches · commentator · publicist
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
- Historic WomenJoan of Arc, Harriet Tubman, Marie Curie, Rosa Parks, Florence Nightingale
- women's rightssuffrage movement, women's suffrage, women's rights, gender equality, feminism
- Feministsfeminist, suffragist, suffragette, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan
- reformersreformers, reformer, social reformers, social reformer, political reformer
- Suffrageright to vote, suffragette, suffrage movement, suffragettes, votes for women
Elizabeth Cady Stantonreactionary
Anti-progress political stance
conservative · traditionalist · social conservative · old guard · John C. Calhoun