Select ONE(1) of the following questions and post your answer. Your answer must be thoughtful and thorough. It must be clear that you are thinking critically about the topic.
- Why do you think Stanton was dissatisfied with her lot as a woman in 1848? Why could she not be content to be only a wife and mother?
- What did men in the 1840s think about women’s rights? In what ways did men support and oppose the movement – especially at Seneca Falls?
- One of the grievances listed in the Declaration of Sentiments was that men attempted to destroy woman’s “confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect.” In what ways were women’s confidence and self-respect undermined? To what end? Did the Seneca Falls Convention change the way women perceived themselves? Why?
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