Founding Fathers

Author's Note: this essay is about three questions i would ask our founding fathers. look for the text to world connections.  

Imagine a small room with fifty-five men jammed into it and the sunlight glimmering through the windows. Extravagant red cloth draping down the walls and in the middle of the room a table with seven men on a quest to come up with a document making the United States an independent country. If given a chance to talk to these men I would ask a few questions about different rights people were given and what was the deal with why women were not equal to men.

I would start off by asking why did you say that all men are created equal but yet you still have slaves? In the Revolutionary war time slaves were brought over to of course help and do all the dirty work. The blacks were slaves because the 13 colonies decided that the black weren’t try to free this country like they were so they put the blacks to work.    

My second question would be why couldn’t the women vote until 1917? In the Declaration of Independence it says that all men and created equal but it say nothing about women. The men thought that the women were incapable of making a important decisions. That is also why in the 1900’s women weren’t allowed to get into Harvard and Yale.

The final question would be why weren’t women allowed in congress until 1916? People have found out that men thought that women were less intelligent when it came to making a political decision. Before 1916 when the first women was in congress, a bunch of women would get together and march in front of the white house and protest because women couldn’t vote and none of them were in congress. Most of those women were sent to jail.

If I could ask our founding fathers anything those three questions would be it. If I asked those questions when our founding fathers were making the Declaration of Independence I wonder if the Declaration of Independence would change.