(1848) SENECAFALLSCONVENTION JamesandLucretiaMott ElizabethCadyStantonin1848with twoofherthreesons MainPoint1 AllmenandWOMENarecreatedequal. •Weholdthesetruthstobeself-evident;that allmenandwomenarecreatedequal…” LucretiaMott(1842) ElizabethCady Stantonandher daughterHarriot. MainPoint2 Womenalsohavecer...
Seneca Falls Convention summary: The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. It was organized by a handful of women who were active in the abolition and temperance movements and held July 19–20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. Intended to cal...
But it was not until an 1848 visit of Lucretia Mott with her sister, Martha Coffin Wright, during an annual Quaker convention, that the idea of a women's rights convention turned into plans, and Seneca Falls became a reality. The sisters met during that visit with three other women, Eliza...
Elizabeth Cady StantonandLucretia Mottwrote the Declaration of Sentiments for theSeneca Falls Women's Rights Convention(1848) in upstate New York, deliberately modeling it on the 1776Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Sentiments was read by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, then each paragraph was ...
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. Held in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, the meeting launched thewomen’s suffragemovement, which more than seven decades later ensured women the right to vote. ...
In 1848 a group of women met at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York and began to formulate a demand for the enfranchisement of American women (Women’s Suffrage, 2011). Elizabeth Cady Stanton composed the Declaration of Sentiments, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, stating that...
The Seneca Falls Convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Many individuals cite this convention as the beginning of the women's movement in America. However, the idea for the convention came about at another protest meeting: the1840 World Anti-Slavery Conventionheld in London. ...
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Seneca Falls Convention was an assembly held on July 19–20, 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the women’s suffrage movement in the United States.
National Women’s Hall of Fame, not-for-profit educational institution founded in 1969 to honour the accomplishments of outstanding American women. The Hall of Fame is located in Seneca Falls, New York, the site of the first Women’s Rights Convention, i