Seneca Falls Convention

In the American Revolutionary Era, non-consumption and non-importation of British goods, became the two instruments for the American resistance against British taxation without representation. Patriot Women contributed to the non-importation by creating the Homespun Movement. In the Homespun Movement, women spun their own cloth to make clothing, instead of purchasing clothing made of imported British materials. Women played significant roles, by joining the non-consumption movements, by…

It was held in New York and held around 300 people, 40 of which were men. At the convention, the speakers talked about the inequalities that women faced. The convention was organized by many women who were involved in abolitionist and temperance movements, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The Declaration of Sentiments was the document that was drafted during the convention and debated over the course of two days and signed by some of the attendees. It was loosely based upon…

At this very convention, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and together they would organize the First Woman’s Rights Convention, of many, in Seneca Falls, New York. The Seneca Falls Convention sparked the Women’s Rights movement in the United States by being the first of its kind, the influential attendees and…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended a World Anti-Slavery Convention (“Seneca Falls Convention Begins,” n.d.). During the convention, the two women were barred from the convention floor because of their sex. However, the issue did not stop the women from expressing their opinions and exercising their invisible rights. Mott and Stanton later on held a women’s conference in Seneca Falls, New York which is now known as the notorious Seneca Falls Convention.…

especially support for Native Americans, African Americans, and women.” The Seneca Falls Convention would have probably never happened if it wasn’t for Lucretia Mott, Martha Wright, Mary McClintock, and Jane Hunt coming into Stanton’s life and supporting her as a leader. Lucretia Mott was one of the main supporters behind Stanton in a convention. It all started when all women were denied a seat at the international London convention due to our gender. That is where Stanton and Mott met. Mott…

Woman’s Suffrage In the early 1800’s woman were viewed as second-class citizens. They were not allowed to vote, own property, or pursue an education. Once married, a woman was almost non-existent. A man and woman were considered one according to the law. Married woman were not allowed to own property, collect inheritance, or even considered a guardian to their children. Woman fought for 70 years to change the world’s views about woman and to gain the right to vote. Woman’s Suffrage…

Seneca Falls, New York was a tiny village in eighteen forty-eight. Barely large enough to accommodate the steady stream of wagons filing into it. Men and women from all over the country struggled to find seating in the meeting hall. Drawn by notices and publications announcing the advent months prior, nearly three hundred people arrived to provide witness and opinion to the topic of women’s rights. Later called the Declaration of Sentiments, signers of this resolution agreed that women should…

worked with Susan B. Anthony during that time. She graduated from Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary in 1832 and married to a reformer named Henry Stanton in 1840 and they went at once to the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London. They had seven children and eventually settled in Seneca Falls, New York. She became aware of legal discrimination against women and took up the cause of rights when she was studying law with her father who later became a New York Supreme Court judge.…

repeal of the unfair laws that allowed women to be treated unequally, the acknowledgement that women are equal to men, the right to speak in churches, equal participation in professions, trade, and commerce, and the granting of the right to vote (Seneca Falls…

in 1848 with the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York (Footnote). After being prohibited to enter a convention in London on world slavery because, they were women. There was a discussion about whether or not female delegates should partake in the convention. After that debate, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton decided to create their own convention to discuss the rights that women should have. This started because at the convention, the women were segregated from the…