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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton was important to all women because she worked so hard to get women and blacks the right to vote. Since she fought for these reasons she was a suffragist. A suffragist could be a man or a woman. |
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| The most important thing Stanton did was to organize the first meeting about women getting the right to vote, along with Lucretia Mott. Back then women didn't have the right to vote! |
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| The meeting was to be held in Seneca Falls, New York, at the Wesleyan Chapel. Many of the 300 people who attended the meeting found it way too radical, or something really strange for that time, and got up and left or made harsh comments. |
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| Stanton proposed a paper called The Declaration of Sentiments. Stanton took The Declaration of Independence and replaced some of the words so it could apply to women too. Stanton worked so hard, but never got to cast a ballot or even see another woman vote. Women finally got the right to vote in 1920. She was really one of the most remarkable women that has ever lived. |
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