On July 19th, 1848, the inaugural women’s rights convention in the United States was held in Seneca Falls, New York. This first meeting was essential to the beginning of the Women’s Suffrage Movement and the Equal Rights Amendment. Two weeks after the Seneca Falls Convention a similar, and preponderant meeting was held in Rochester, New York. Multiple conventions similar to these followed annually, these conventions launched the Women's Suffrage Movement.
During the years leading up to 1848, many women began to push the limits society had put on them for centuries. Women of America were limited by laws and also by social norms. Women could not vote, inherit property, sign contracts, serve on juries or vote in any kind of election. They were …show more content…
A large number of female delegates were refused seats because of their gender. Among the delegates was Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, they met and began talking of a convention to confront the issues surrounding the condition of women. The Seneca Falls Convention lasted for the period of two days and discussed “social, civil, and religious condition of woman1”. The convention hosted close to three-hundred women and on the second day approximately forty men attended. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Martha Coffin Wright were main organizers of the convention. At the Seneca Falls Convention, “The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments”, written mainly by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was introduced. This document was modeled after the United States Declaration of Independence and included phrases such as, “ We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal…”. One sentiment that describes how men of that period had withheld inalienable rights from women, it reads, “He has withheld her from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men-both natives and foreigners”. In 1848 all women living the United States could not vote or hold office, as previously stated, these are the rights this sentiment was referring to. Every woman deserved the same rights of men but, due to ignorance, men failed to see
During the years leading up to 1848, many women began to push the limits society had put on them for centuries. Women of America were limited by laws and also by social norms. Women could not vote, inherit property, sign contracts, serve on juries or vote in any kind of election. They were …show more content…
A large number of female delegates were refused seats because of their gender. Among the delegates was Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, they met and began talking of a convention to confront the issues surrounding the condition of women. The Seneca Falls Convention lasted for the period of two days and discussed “social, civil, and religious condition of woman1”. The convention hosted close to three-hundred women and on the second day approximately forty men attended. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Martha Coffin Wright were main organizers of the convention. At the Seneca Falls Convention, “The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments”, written mainly by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was introduced. This document was modeled after the United States Declaration of Independence and included phrases such as, “ We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal…”. One sentiment that describes how men of that period had withheld inalienable rights from women, it reads, “He has withheld her from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men-both natives and foreigners”. In 1848 all women living the United States could not vote or hold office, as previously stated, these are the rights this sentiment was referring to. Every woman deserved the same rights of men but, due to ignorance, men failed to see