Women are less numerous than the American male population.

Women have only recently become recognized as being on an equal plane as men in the United States.

Women have played a lesser role in the economic, social, and political development of the country.

Women have suffered the same types of discrimination as minority groups.

The U.S. government desired both group's wealth.

The U.S. government thought both groups were violent.

The U.S. government found that both groups had undermined its authority.

The U.S. government wanted to claim both group's land.

African Americans

Cuban Americans

Pacific Islanders

Japanese Americans

both are evidence of discriminatory attitudes toward Asian Americans

both resulted in a severe drop in the numbers of Asian immigrants to the U.S.

both led to acts of violence against Asian Americans

both actions were found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court

The women were asserting the fact that they have always been equal citizens under the law.

The women intended the document to be viewed as a sarcastic statement of the unfairness to which they were subjected.

The women wanted people to understand that the discrimination they faced was as frustrating and unacceptable as that faced by the colonists.

The women thought it was in their best interest to model their document on the Declaration.