Seneca falls convention

The Seneca Falls Convention, held in upstate New York over two days in July 1848, was the first women’s rights convention in the United States.

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The 1848 historic event triggered the women's rights movement in America.

1848 - More than 300 men and women attend a women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. The Declaration of Sentiments is read and approved here. | Highlights of the Suffrage Movement | Kids Discover

The Seneca Falls Convention was a meeting held at Seneca Falls. It’s purpose was to discuss women’s rights. The convention was help in New York in 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.

Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Convention This primary source document marked the beginning of the seventy-year struggle for women’s suffrage as Elizabeth Cady Stanton hoste…

The first women's rights convention centered around the Declaration of Sentiments.

1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls and Rochester | New York Heritage

Seneca Falls, NY - site of the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848, the first meeting to advocate women's rights

This inquiry examines the emergence of the women’s suffrage movement in the 19th century as an effort to expand women’s political and economic rights, and it extends that investigation into the present. The compelling question “What does it mean to be equal?” provides students with an opportunity to examine the nature of equality and the […]