The First Women 's Rights Convention

The Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls was the site of the first women's rights convention in the United States. The meeting took place on July 19-20, 1848.1 On the first day, only women were permitted to speak, and men joined in on the second day.2

Women have always been fighting for their rights for voting, the right to have an abortion, equal pay as men, being able to joined the armed forces just to name a few. The most notable women’s rights movement was headed in Seneca Falls, New York. The movement came to be known as the Seneca Falls convention and it was lead by women’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton during July 19th and 20th in 1848. Stanton created this convention in New York because of a visit from Lucretia Mott from Boston. Mott was a Quaker who was an excellent public speaker, abolitionist and social reformer. She was a proponent of women’s rights. The meeting lasted for only two days and was compiled of six sessions, which included lectures on law, humorous

Who were the main people involved? Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott initiated the first Women's Suffrage Movement, July 19, 1848 at Seneca Falls Convention, New York. At this convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton echoed the preamble of the Declaration Of Independence. “ We hold these truths to be self- evident: that all men and women are created equally.” Proving that when we declared our independence it was for everyone not just men. In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed an American Equal Rights Association. The Association was dedicated to the suffrage goals regardless of race or gender. Lucy Stone fought about the 15th Amendment, Ratified in 1870, and that the Amendment states that, “ The right of citizens to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.Many of the women involved in suffrage began political work in the antislavery

The first women’s right convention was held in Seneca Falls, NY with about 300 attendees which include women and men, such as Frederick Douglas. Whereas the agenda was clear to abolition all social, economic, and legal discrimination against women.

The early 19th century in the United States was a period of many social upheavals and reforms including women’s rights. The women's rights movement in the United States began with a convention held at the Wesleyan Church chapel located in Seneca Falls, New York, which became known as the Seneca Falls Convention. Approximately 200 people, men and women, attended; many of them were already activists in various movements. During the convention the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was created and presented. This document defined the rights that both men and women should have. This eventually led to women’s right to vote, own property and have independent lives. The Seneca Falls Convention was a monumental event that resulted in a movement that truly changed the idea of women being less equal

The first women's right convention was held in Seneca Falls New York in July of 1948. This was the meeting that started the women's suffrage movement. The Seneca Falls Convention was mainly organized by Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Nearly three hundred women attended the convention. During the convention Elizabeth Stanton with the help of the other attendees drafted the Declaration of Sentiments.

This would in turn award African Americans the right to vote, however when congress drafted this amendment, they refused women that same right. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman’s Suffrage Movement in 1869. Their main focus was to promote a Woman’s Suffrage amendment. Within the same year Lucy stone created the American Woman’s Suffrage Movement, and movement focused mainly on states legislatures. Later in 1890 these two groups would merge and become the National American Woman’s Suffrage Movement, and would earn the right to vote in

In 1869, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, an organization devoted to gaining rights for women. Anthony made sure that Stanton was president as long as possible; Anthony served as vice president until 1892 when she became president of the NWSA

Susan B. Anthony created many organizations to help women’s suffrage. In 1866, together abolitionist, such as Anthony, and Republican allies, they formed the American Equal Rights Association (Garland 61). This campaign would eventually lead up to the demanding that change of the United States Constitution. Anthony along with other activists created the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (McGill 2). This association was created in response to whether the women’s movement should support the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Throughout their lives Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked tirelessly to bring about various social and political changes. From abolition, and temperance, to the varying long denied rights of women throughout the country; from divorce rights, guardianship of children, equal pay and control of earnings, property rights, education, to the vote. Together they created the National Women’s Suffrage Association, the Women’s State Temperance Society, the Women’s National Loyal League, wrote and published their own newspaper titled The Revolution, lectured across the country and lobbied for equal rights, with a focus on women’s rights.

Seneca Falls was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. The convention took place at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY, on July 19, 1848 (Seneca Falls Convention Begins). This convention was organized by two abolitionist named Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton with the help of Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt. They posted the announcement in the Seneca County Courier on July 14, 1848. The message said “A Convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious conditions and rights of women will be held…” (American Memory). The Seneca Falls community was open to the idea of changing public roles of women in society. So it was no surprise when about 300 people responded to the message in the courier. The convention took place for two days, Wednesday July 19, 1848 and Thursday July 20, 1989. During the two day period the participants listened to multiple speeches, wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, created 11 resolutions that proclaimed equality of all people and declared all laws/customs that subordinated women illegitimate.

The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. It was organized by multiple women that were active abolitionists at the time, including others being members of temperance movement. It was a convention that was planned to discuss about the social, civil, religious rights of women. It lasted two days long from July 19, 1848 to July 20, 1848. The Seneca Falls Convention brought focus to the unfair treatment of women and ignited the Women’s suffrage movement. Three hundred people attended the convention including forty men. Women have struggle to get women’s right and men were villain yet black man have help to get women the right to vote.

The Women’s Rights Convention took place in Seneca Falls, New York 1848. This was the first ever women’s rights convention in the United States, and with almost 200 women in attendance. This convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Kelly Stanton, who were both abolitionists that met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. In 1848 at Elizabeth Stanton’s home near Seneca Falls, the two women, Mott and Stanton, were working with Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock and Jane Hunt, to send out a call for a women’s conference to be held at Seneca Falls.

The event of Seneca Falls Convention which was held on July 19-20, 1848 was the first official Women’s Right Convention attended by over 200 women. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who met at World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where banned from it and had a common indignation that brought in them the impulse to bring about the foundation of Women Right’s Movement in US.

In 1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed National Woman Suffrage Association, with the focus of achieving the right for women to vote. Soon many women suffrage advocates started focusing specifically on gaining the right to vote. Advocates continued to try to get the right the vote by holding conventions, meetings, handing out pamphlets, and placing