Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

AP English – 1A

November 15, 2012

Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

In 1848, the rights of women were nonexistent. Women were not permitted to live as equal beings with men. They did not possess any political authority such as the right to vote, the right to speak in public, or the right to hold office. They were restricted from many of the other rights men were granted. They were not allowed to receive an education, work in the medical field or with the law, or even obtain property, meaning land and also clothes. As an educated, frustrated, and unequal female social activist, Elizabeth Cady attends the women's right convention at Seneca Falls, New York. Elizabeth Cady drafted the Declaration of Sentiments to persuade the American government to grant equality because men and women are equal.

Cady uses cacophonous diction to persuade the American government to give women the same rights as men. The Declaration of Sentiments includes "absolute tyranny". Cady's word choice helps to arouse feelings of fright and humiliation within America because many people were terrified at the fact of a tyrannical government. It The people will not want t

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