Antebellum Reform, Doc-Based SAQ 5: Seneca Falls Declaration
In your response, be sure to address all parts of the question. Use complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable
Using the excerpt, answer (a), (b), and (c).
We are assembled to protest against a form of government, existing without the consent of the governed – to declare our right to be free as man is free, to be represented in the government which we are taxed to support, to have such disgraceful laws as give man the power to chastise and imprison his wife, to take the wages which she earns, the property which she inherits, and, in case of separation, the children of her love; laws test against such unjust laws as these that we are assembled today, and to have them, if possible, forever erased from our statute-books, deeming them as a shame and a disgrace to a Christian republic in the nineteenth century.…And, strange as it may seem to many, we now demand our right to vote according to the declaration of the government under which we live.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Declaration, August 2, 1848
Question 1
Briefly describe ONE argument made in the excerpt.
Question 2
Briefly describe one historical development from the first half of the 19th century which may have led to the ideas described by this excerpt.
Question 3
Briefly explain how reforms associated with this excerpt impacted democratic ideals in the first half of the 19th century.
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