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Module 7, Women's Suffrage Movement

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 American women had the highest female literacy rate in the world. In the 1820s and for decades to come  married women could not own property, make contracts, bring suits, or sit on juries. Elizabeth Cady  Stanton and others organized the first women's rights convention in history in Seneca Falls, New York, in  1848. Women have had to overcome the oldest form of exploitations and subordination. In the fight for  women's suffrage, most of the earliest activists found their way to the cause through the abolition  movement  of the 1830s. In 1840, when Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended the world Anti- Slavery Convention in London, they were forced into the gallery along with all the women who attended.  Their indignation led them eight years later, to organize the first U.S. women's rights convention at  Seneca, Falls, NY. In the early years of the women's rights movement, the agenda included much more  than just the right to vote. Their broad goals included equal ac

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                                                                    Modern Day Slavery  Q: What is the main idea and/or experience that you will offer your readers? - Basically the main idea of modern day slavery is poverty, when countries have anarchy, are lawless, have poor societal structure, economic freedom, or lack of education slavery thrives. I will offer the readers about modern day slavery is educate them, help reduce it and give to those in need and volunteer.

Module 6, Woodrow Wilson Requests War (April 2, 1917)

 In 1917, Mr. Wilson made a speech for America's entry into World War 1. In that case it was a very  serious matter and had to be made immediately. It was war in all nations. American lives are being  taken in ways which it had stirred us very deeply to learn of. There were no discrimination. The   challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it. Our motive will not  be revenged or the victorious  assertion, but only the vindication of right, of which we are only a single champion.  The congress declare the recent course of the imperial Germany government to be in fact nothing less than  war against the government and people of the United States. The world must be safe for democracy. We  desire no conquest, no dominion. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure the  faith and the freedom of nations can make them.  It will be all the easier for us to conduct ourselves as  belligerents in a high spirit of right and fairness b