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The excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments indicates which of the following about women's rights to vote and own property during the first half of the 19th century?
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Oh Okay A pushers Here's the passage We're focused on
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this thing right here History mankind of his range and
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that we're mean and compelled to cement along with their
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parents billing on on so frame No it's the Declaration
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of Sentiments Seneca Falls New York eighteen forty eight And
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the question Here we go The excerpt from the Declaration
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of Sentiments indicates which of the following about women's rights
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to vote and own property during the first half of
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the nineteenth century During the first half the nineteenth century
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women still didn't have the right to vote or own
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property It was during this time that the feminist movement
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began and women started to demand their natural rights While
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the declaration of sentiments which sixty eight women signed in
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New Marais tid the rights they plan to fight for
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including the rights to vote and own property detail oriented
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shmoop er's might note that the word vote does not
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appear in the passage However the phrase elective franchise which
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does appear in the passage is a rather roundabout nineteenth
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century way of well saying voting some answers Be women
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did not have the right to vote or own property
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All right the loser role Well most women definitely didn't
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have the right to vote own property at the time
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Which is why grim K says men deprived women of
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elective franchise and taken all right in property Well clearly
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women were interested in obtaining these civil liberties Why else
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would the declaration of sentiments have been written in the
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first place Women couldn't even vote known property with their
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husband's permission In fact well when a woman got married
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Oliver assets passed from the control of her father to
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that of her husband If she inherited a farm for
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example of her husband could I'll pretty much do anything 00:01:44.36 --> [endTime] he wanted with it Answer is B
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