Womens Reform

In the 19th century women were fed up being treated like unequaled. They wanted equal rights to men but that didn't go over well with the general population of America. For all eternity before this uprising women in Americas role in life was to be the sole caretaker of the family and home. Since this had been going on so long this is all Americas knew as to the extents of women's rights or lack there of. But everything changed in Seneca Falls in July of 1848 in New York. That was where and when the first women's right movements conference was. Most people hated the idea of women having rights. They wanted women to back down from trying to change their rights and stay unequal to the men as they have been. This opinion of keeping women in their submissive state was so wide spread that even the newspapers were apologizing for the women's actions. "We are sorry to see that women, in several parts of this State, are holding what they call 'Women's Rights Movements' and setting forth a formidable list of those Rights, in a parody upon the Declaration of American Independence." This was in The Mechanics Advocate. This shows that this was originally an absurd idea to most people. Also that they didn't want people to think that what they were doing was okay and for people to catch on and join the reform.