Question

PLEASE HELP 25 POINT FOR ANSWERS Now that you have carefully compared each document, identify two ways in which the Declaration of Sentiments is similar to the Declaration of Independence. Give your answer in the form of one or two complete sentences.

Answer 1

Both advocated for equal rights and protection of rights

In the Declaration of Independence, it is freedom from Great Britain. In the Declaration of Sentiments, it is freedom from being treated unequally. Both documents were a statement of wanting to have freedom and equality. The parallels between these two documents are fascinating.

Answer 2

The Declaration of Sentiments ( 1848), whose principal author was Elisabeth Cady Stanton, uses the Declaration of Independence ( 1766) as a framework.

One way in which documents are similar is the way both documents are worded. Elisabeth Cady Stanton adopts Thomas Jefferson's famous sentence about " all men are created equal" and states that both men and women are created equal. This statement about gender equality was the principal idea behind the Declaration of Sentiments, also known as Declaration of Rights and Sentiments.

Another major similarity is the the fact that document  were created because people felt oppressed. The Founding Fathers wanted to gain independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and even declared war, they wanted the thirteen colonies to become sovereign states and no longer under British rule. The Declaration of Sentiments argued that women were oppressed by the government and the patriarchal society they are living in, which gives more rights and  better opportunities to men.