The place to submit the journal entries are under lessons, and then the womens reform thing is at the bottom of expanding american democracy:



The grievances centered around having no political power, no economic power, having men favored for divorce court, etc. The declaration of sentiments says the following, "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world." They cite the lack of a right to elective franchise, the forced submission to law without representation in the making of said law, marriage putting women under the authority of their husbands, the lack of rights to property, the assumption that males should get child custody, the male monopolization of profitable professions, taxation without representation, the enforced lack of education, forced subordination in church and state, different moral standards for men and women, and more.

The suffragette movement had several things going for it besides the whole lack of political and economic power. Many women were in charge of what was purchased and could organize boycotts, they had a large population, and they had plenty of free time. Ironically these advantages were due to the very conditions they were organizing against. But in the declaration of sentiments it says that these missing rights have been gone for a very long time, and these advantages had existed for all that time too. So that raises the question? Why at that point?

I think it has to do with industrialization. Without such economic emphasis put on physical labor, it was theoretically possible for comparable incomes to be earned. However what I think was the final push that tipped things over the line was the recent hulabaloo over giving the common non-land owning white man the right to vote. I think this emboldened the movement, and with it being recognized, legitimacy was given to the idea of giving normal people political power, after all this very thing was brought up in the declaration of sentiments. They directly said that it was stupid to give the stupidest non-immigrant men the right to vote but not an entire class of people.