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Sojourner Truth
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Sojourner Truth became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights in the nineteenth century.
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Throughout her life Sojourner Truth fought for justice for all under the law so women today could have equal rights.
Her legacy includes some of the first successfully tried court cases around the rights of Black women, including one to regain her son Peter, who had been illegally sold and defended against slander.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Stanton forever changed the social and political landscape of the United States of America by succeeding in her work to guarantee rights for women and slaves.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist, human rights activist and one of the first leaders of the woman's rights movement.
Her unwavering dedication to women's suffrage resulted in the 19th amendment to the Constitution, which granted women the right to vote.
Stanton forever changed the social and political landscape of the United States of America by succeeding in her work to guarantee rights for women and slaves.
Lucretia Mott
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She continued to speak out against slavery, and in 1866 she became the first president of the American Equal Rights Association, an organization formed to achieve equality for African Americans and women.
She also co-wrote the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 for the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, which ignited the fight for women's suffrage.
As an ardent abolitionist, she helped found the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1833.
Seneca Falls Convention
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Held in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, the meeting launched the women's suffrage movement, which more than seven decades later ensured women the right to vote.
cult of demesticity
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It was founded on the theory of scientific sexism and the fact that nineteenth- century women were considered to be both physically and mentally inferior to men.
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affected married women's labor market participation in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
temperance movement
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The 18th amendment stated that there was to be no production, transport, and sale of alcohol.
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More surprising is the support for actual prohibition. Today nearly one in five U.S. adults favors making drinking any alcohol illegal.
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