Seneca Falls-Women’s Rights

 

  • Directions: Take a few moments to observe the picture below. This is a primary source document from the Seneca Falls Convention. After viewing the illustration respond to the prompts below on the blog.
  • What do you notice about most of the men in this illustration? Be specific and state as much as you can.
  • How are women portrayed (shown) in this political cartoon?
  • Post our response…below. if you click on the image it will enlarge itself.

 

24 thoughts on “Seneca Falls-Women’s Rights

  1. The men are all sitting in chairs, wearing fancy clothes and giving speeches. The women are portrayed to be less superior and just their to listen.

  2. Most of the men are dressed in “men clothing” and they are sitting. The women are shown wearing long dresses, and are standing.

    • I don’t like this cartoon because i would want to sit not stand.ad it is not fair at all that the women had to give up their chair and the men had the right to sit.

  3. In this cartoon, people are at a conference listening to the speaker preaching. Probably about womans rights.

  4. The men look a little bit upset or annoyed and also the majority of the men are sitting down and the majority of the women are standing up. The women are shown all dressed up in dresses.

  5. I notice that the majority of the women are standing up, and most of the men are sitting down. The women look upset and troubled, while the men are sitting down, looking bored. They’re slouching in their seats, so they are definitely bored.

  6. Most of the men are dressed nice in suits and are dressed fancy. The men are speaking and the women are listening. I think this shows that women don’t get to speak.

  7. Most men are not paying attention and are board but all the men are sitting and some women are standing. This could be a symbol of how in there the women are more powerful and are more important.

  8. The men were not interested in the women fighting for their rights. They were shown in nice clothes.

  9. Most of the men looked confused in this picture because the women are not supposed to be there. The women kind of look a little mad. I think that because they got kicked out the convention.

  10. A1 Most of the men are yelling and waving hats on a higher platform than the women.

    A2 One of the women is speaking while the others are listening. They are sitting down and some are leaning on the listening men.

  11. I notice that all the men are cheering and shouting and going wild. The woman are listening and speaking.

  12. Men are standing waving hats in the air. A woman is in the Middle talking to the crowd.

  13. I noticed that i saw like most of the men were sitting and the girls were standing which i thought was kind weird.The woman look like they look fancy and they are like in dresses and the men are in suits.

  14. Most of the men in this picture are pointing at people and they all seem angry at something or someone. To me it looks like at the conviention a women was trying to give a speech about women’s rights or about something else, but them men started disagreeing with her. Then some of the women just seem shocked at the men for what they are saying or doing.

  15. Some of the men in the picture fell asleep, not really focused and most are pointing and lifting the hats off their head. The woman are focused and listening and one of them is resting on the seat relaxing and listening.

  16. In the picture i think that it is women rights and women wanted the same rights as men.Women wanted to vote like men can do.

  17. In the piture all the men are standing still and doing the same thing. The women are keeling down.

  18. One thing i noticed about the men, was that there weren’t many of them because it was a women’s issue.Some rich women were in fancy clothing and other women who were not as wealthy were not in as fancy clothing.I think that women should of been able to vote and have the same rights as men back then.

  19. One thing I noticed about the men, was that there weren’t many of them because it was women’s issue. Some rich women were in fancy clothing and other women who were not as wealthy were not in as fancy clothes. I think that women should of been able to vote and have the same rights as men back then.

  20. There is not a lot of man in the picture and the woman where tacking thum for grantid and most of thum are togtether on the top. The rich would ware dresses evry where and poor would ware rags and not fance clos. This show that should woman are =.

  21. In the picture i think that it is women rights and women wanted the same rights as men they thought that it was not fair to let men vote and not women. most of the men are on the sad and the women are running it.

  22. There were not as many man because it was a women’s convention. I notice that a lot of wealthy woman had beautiful dresses on and poor women had rag dresses on.

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