Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities
an Suffragists staged a tableau at the US Treasury Department steps during their monumental parade in Washington DC in 1913 Library of Congress LC USZ62 70382
Preface A Declaration for a New Nation We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal ARLY IN the new year of 1777 life was tense in revolutionary Baltimore as it was across the 13 new states The upstart Americans had launched a revolution against Great Britain and its monarch King George III The summer before Baltimore's citi zens had swarmed the streets to hear words of a thrilling document just written in Philadelphia It declared that all men were created equal that they had certain inalienable rights and that they were entitled to life liberty and the pursuit of happi ness There was just one problem This Declaration of Independence was handwritten on parchment with a quill pen and ink Any printed copies were incom plete because they didn't show the signatures of those who had penned their names at the bottom of the page It was high time to put these radical words along with the names of the brave men who had signed it into the hands of people across the colonies The document needed a publisher to print
it in full IN CONGRESS JE 4 1976 THE ex A OVE D E CLAR AT ON THIRTEEN UNITED STATES on AMERICA TERBs are seen an entertainment limitmeg in the event the a meeting W Julie Hansent Jon Hancock Prfiant Mary Katherine Goddard printed the first full copies of the Declaration of Independence Library of Congress bdsdсc 02101
IN CONGRESS Jr 4 1776 fie unanimous Reclaration is one States of merica The Declaration of Independence National Archives That duty fell to a woman named Mary Katherine Goddard editor of the Maryland Journal She accom plished her task and at the bottom of the broadsheet she added her name Goddard oversaw the task of printing the Declara tion of Independence but its words about liberty and freedom did not include her In revolutionary Ameri ca women did not live as equals with men Not one man who signed the Declaration even dreamed that women should vote sit on a jury or serve in govern ment Most people in the Americas and Europe believed that women needed little education beyond being able to read write and do simple math Women's
