Slowing the momentum for womens rights

Short summary of Chapter 3 in Mightier than the Sword 




Confining the American Woman to Her Place:

• The beginning of women's right movement started in Seneca Falls by Elizabeth Cady Stanton 
• As a result of the women's right movement starting the Declaration of Sentimants was signed by both men and women.
• Newspapers degraded women

Creating a Voice of Their Own:

• In January 1868 Stanton and Anthony started The Revolution.
• Two years after The Revolution was started it was ceased publication.
• Stanton and Anthony founded the National Women Suffrage.
• July 1869 Lucy stone and Henry Blackwell, her husband formed a less radical American Woman Suffrage Association and Lucy stone also created the Women Journal.

Intensifying the Attack:

• New York World demeaned Anthony in 1866 and over the years the same thing happened to Anthony from the Utica herald and Richmon herald.

Victory Despite the Fourth Estate:

•  Two wings of the women's right movement joined and created the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890.
• Harriot Stanton Blatch created The Women's Political Union in 1907. She also organized the first suffrage parade.
• Alice Paul a young activist formed the National Women's Party in 1913.
• Carrie Chapman Catt had a political strategy. Her "winning plan" passed as the 19th amendment in 1918
• In August 1920 women's suffrage became the law of the land.