1. Review of PERSUASION 2 types of appeals? Rhetorical question? Allusion?

2. Stanton’s Declaration Reread an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence. Read an excerpt from Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention. Highlight/underline the places in Stanton’s declaration that are different from the DOI. Compare the similarities and differences

3. Stanton & The Seneca Falls Convention: Took place on July 19-20, 1848 – Seneca Falls, New York – Wesleyan Chapel Attended by 300 people Purpose: Women’s Suffrage (right to vote)

4. Stanton & The Seneca Falls Convention: Stanton was uncomfortable chairing the event, so she asked her friend’s husband, James Mott, to chair the event. – Stanton was afraid of being ridiculed.

5. Appeals to Logic “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government.” – People only disagree and rebel against the government if it is important. Affects the safety and happiness of women

6. Appeals to Emotions “In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming to all intents and purposes, her master…” – Women are servants to their masters. They have no choice but to listen and do whatever their husbands say. They have no equality, which means they are dismissed from their independence and freedom as citizens and human beings.

7. Allusions “God, the Creator, and the Divine” – Emotional/religious connection to the audience. Quotes similar to the Declaration of Independence – Something the audience is familiar with and can connect to.

8. Resolutions A list of resolutions and grievances which included demands for a woman's right to education, property, a profession, and the vote.

9. Why do women need to vote anyway? Crazy reasons given by men: – The mother's influence is needed in the home. – The men are able to run the government and take care of the women. – The polls are not decent places for women. – Politics are corrupting. – Women are well represented through their influence on men.

10. “Well, I won’t back down. No I won’t back down. You could stand me up at the gates of Hell, but I won’t back down.” Tom Petty “The right to vote is ours. Have it we must. Use it we must.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

11. Important People in Attendance Fredrick Douglass-former slave and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison-a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer

12. Reaction to the Speech Received ridicule and criticism from the press, but most people in attendance respected Stanton’s viewpoints.

13. The Seneca Falls Declaration had come 72 years after the Declaration of Independence. It would be 72 more years before women would gain the full citizenship which Stanton declared. But the struggle for women’s rights had begun.

14. Biographical Info: Abigail Adams Like other women of her time, Abigail lacked formal education; but her curiosity spurred her keen intelligence and she read avidly the books at hand. Reading created a bond between her and young John Adams, a Harvard graduate launched on a career in law, and they were married in 1764. It was a marriage of the mind and of the heart, enduring for more than half a century, enriched by time. Long separations kept Abigail from her husband while he served the country they loved, as delegate to the Continental Congress, envoy abroad and elected officer under the Constitution. She wrote her husband more than 300 letters, which today serve as significant record of early American life. Her letters—pungent, witty and vivid, spelled just as she spoke— detailed her life in times of revolution. They tell the story of the woman who stayed at home to struggle with wartime shortages and inflation; to run the farm with a minimum of help; to teach four children when formal education was interrupted.

15. JOHN ADAMS TO ABIGAIL ADAMS (April 14, 1776) As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh. We have been told that our struggle has loosened bonds of government everywhere; that children and apprentices were disobedient; that schools and colleges were grown turbulent; that Indians slighted their guardians, and negroes grew insolent to their masters. But your letter was the first intimation that another tribe, more numerous and powerful than all the rest, were grown discontented. This is rather too coarse a compliment, but you are so saucy, I won't blot it out. Depend upon it, we know better than to repeal our masculine systems. Although they are in full force, you know they are little more than theory. We dare not exert our power in its full latitude. We are obliged to go fair and softly, and, in practice, you know we are the subjects. We have only the name of masters, and rather than give up this, which would completely subject us to the despotism of the petticoat, I hope General Washington and all our brave heroes would fight. ABIGAIL ADAMS TO JOHN ADAMS (May 7, 1776) I cannot say that I think you are very generous to the ladies; for, whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to men, emancipating all nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over wives. But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken; and, notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims, we have it in our power, not only to free ourselves, but to subdue our masters, and without violence, throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet.

16. Closure Chart Examine Adams’ and Stanton’s use of persuasion – Summarize: audience Purpose Appeals impact of these writers on American history