I chose to interpret this document, Declaration of Sentiments. It was written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was a female activist. Made in the convention at Sineca Falls New York in 1848, the Declaration was modeled after the Declaration of Independence. For this interpretation, there were three questions that needed to be answered. The first one is why would the authors of the Declaration parallel the Declaration of Independence. They made the Declaration of Independence because the colonies believed that their rights were taken away by the British. This was during the time where colonials weren’t thought equal to the British. The authors made the Declaration paralleled to the Declaration of Independence to remind everyone that there was a time where the people of United States did not have the rights. Listed in this document, men were the real ones that won the independence. Women weren’t even treated equal by them. It gets a lot of attention if the authors of this document are drawing…show more content… The major demand is, “we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States.” By that sentence, they meant that they want all women to have equal rights as them. In that time period, the women were treated different and had to live by different standards. The women had less room to make mistakes, since they didn’t have the protections of their husbands. The single women had a rougher time. They weren’t given an independence. The society back then was created so that a women needed a man. While the man was able to be independence, and had the opportunity to be successful in life. As a women, they were told multiple of times that they weren’t capable of living their own lives without a man. Several women wanted to be independence and doesn’t have to dependence on a man. They want to make themselves successful and not be treated inferior to
