1. The purpose was to control the labor and the behavior of former slaves and other African Americans. 2. Declared the Civil Rights Act 3. By Federal forces from the railroad schemes that took place in the south. 4. The Emancipation Proclamation freed African American in rebel states and the African Americans did not know how to be free while the White people did not know how to act around free colored people. Being free African Americans jumped at the chance of getting a free education and jobs as they now had to be treat equally to the whites. 5. They Abolished Slavery and came together as a Union, Established that the Federal Government had Superiority over the states and subjugated the south making them a lesser class. 6. For the White Northerners it was never about slavery vs. abolition its was about preservation of the union.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott wrote the Declaration of Sentiments for the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention (1848) in upstate New York, deliberately modeling it on the 1776 Declaration of Independence.
