jun 13, 1848 - Changes in families and roles for women
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- Cult of Domesticity- Women’s Rights activists involved in the antislavery movement, called for women’s rights when they are barred from civil rights movements, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Seneca Falls Convention (1848): first feminist movement, issued a document very similar to the Declaration of Independence, equal voting, legal, and property rights, in the 1850s, women’s rights were overshadowed by the crisis over slavery
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Date:
jun 13, 1848
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~ 177 years ago