Seneca Falls Convention (Women’s Rights Convention)

By: Addison Rutkowski

• The first women’s rights convention was held in the United States in 1848. The 1848 Seneca Falls women's rights convention marked the beginning of the women's rights movement in the United States.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott took over the first women's rights convention in American history.

• They were two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Was a young bride of an antislavery agent.

Lucretia Mott- Was a quaker preacher and veteran of reform.

• The convention was located in Seneca Falls, New York. • This attracted many people and started other

conventions as well including one in Rochester, New York about two weeks afterward.

• During the first day the meeting will be exclusively for women, who are earnestly invited to attend. The public generally are invited to be present on the second day, when Lucretia Mott, of Philadelphia, and other ladies and gentlemen, will address the Convention.

• The convention was all about promoting women’s rights.

• There was one thing in which was a central tendency in the U.S. and that was voting.

• A debate came up whether women should be allowed to vote or not.

• Exactly 100 people out of 300 attendees signed the Declaration of Sentiments. This was a long list of resolutions to be debated and modified before being put forward for signatures.

• There was six different sessions• Each session consisted of a lecture on law,

humorous presentations, and multiple discussions on women's role in society

• The Convention recruited supporters and included many action steps to advance the movement.

• The Seneca Falls Convention advertized itself as “ Women's Rights Movement.”

• That was a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious conditions but most importantly the rights of women.

1. . The first women’s rights convention was held in the United States in 1848. The 1848 Seneca Falls women's rights convention marked the beginning of the women's rights movement in the United States.

2. The convention was located in Seneca Falls, New York.3. The convention was all about promoting women’s rights.

There was one thing in which was a central tendency in the U.S. and that was voting.

4. There was six different sessions. Each session consisted of a lecture on law, humorous presentations, and multiple discussions on women's role in society.

5. That was a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious conditions but most importantly the rights of women

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