Introduction America’s physical, economic, and demographic growth and its religious changes led to such attempts at reforming society as the temperance movement, abolition movement, prison reform, women suffrage movements, and civil right reforms. These occurrences led to different actions that took place at different times in the history of the nation with different implications. Body The Declaration of Independence the first document that emanated from activism that sought freedom. It was signed by American revolutionaries and it focused on breaking political rule from England, which would allow the colonies to create a whole new independent country. Part of the document’s preamble written by Thomas Jefferson, noted that all men are created equal by God making neither masters nor slaves (Fink 12). The colonial rule by the British King had become oppressive and the only way to freedom was demanding for independence. The Declaration of Independence was the culmination of this activism. The Declaration of Sentiments was authored two centuries after America had attained freedom from colonial rule. For these two centuries, women were set apart from the rights in which the turning of the revolutionary war bestowed upon men. This eventually led to the rationale and creation of the Declaration of Sentiments, a document that focused on the particular rights and equality for women and their economic freedoms (Stanton 17). This document was written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a female feminist and leader of the American suffrage movement which helped ratify a woman’s right to vote in 1920. The Declaration of Sentiments was a product of the efforts of a special interest group. In modern civil society terms, when men come out to push for their rights as a group to the exclusion of the rest of the larger community they are considered a special interest group. They may ask for preferential treatment or ask to be treated like everyone else. The special interest group in this case was the female community. In their case, they were not pushing for better treatment but equal treatment with the rest of the society. The conditions that led to the rise of the various movements mentioned elsewhere in this paper can be described as injustices toward both females and people of different ethnic groups such as Jews and African Americans. The Declaration of Sentiments brought about the right to vote among women. A preamble set forth in the nation’s constitution helped pass the Declaration of Sentiments which advocated for women’s suffrage movement (Stanton 21). This is what brought about a woman’s constitutional right to vote. Before the implementation of the recommendations that resulted from the Declaration of Sentiments, women were not allowed to participate in elections. On the other hand, the Declaration of Independence pushed for the voice of the colonies in the administrative assemblies (Fink 20-22). In a negligible way, the process of realizing these rights differed in that whereas the American Colonies fought in battle during the American Revolution as a way of getting their rights, the Women’s Suffrage Convention led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, used the 15th Amendment of 1870, to ratify a women’s constitutional right to vote. But as already mentioned this was a difference of process and not substance. The Declaration of Independence which was written by Thomas Jefferson and told by historians, include the argument that he might have believed in a literal interpretation of the phrase, “We hold these trut