Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Decleration of Independence
- this document was created in 1776
- Was made by a multitude of people
- was made for the purpose of
gaining independence from Britian
- had a list of grievances against the king
- The Bill of Rights
- 10 articles were added in 1791
- was added for the purpose of adding elements
not added to the decleration
- sevrved as a branch off of the decleration
- protected the rights of the people
- Similarities between the Bill of Rights
and Declaration of Independence
- made right around the time of the
formation of our government
- written 71 yrs after the Decleration of Independence was
written
- made for one group of people specifically, not the
nation as a whole
- added to make women's issues known
- documents
- Declaration of Sentiments
- made by women
- purpose of gaining rights for women
- women stated that men deprived them of their rights:
from participation in church to good education
- demanded that they have equal
rights with men
- stated that the constitution should include
unalienable rights for women as well
- modeled it similarily to the Constitution to prove that women
studied the Constituiton