Seneca Falls Convention

American

noun

U.S. History.

a women's rights convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.

Seneca Falls Convention Cultural

The first convention in America devoted to women's rights. It met in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, and passed several resolutions, including a demand that women be given the right to vote.

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She co-organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first women’s-rights conclave in the United States; she was the first American woman formally to run for national office and the first suffragist to lead a delegation, made up of her comrades, before a committee of Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal

Called the Seneca Falls Convention, the event in Seneca Falls, New York, drew over 300 people, mostly women.

From National Geographic Kids

The Seneca Falls Convention was attended mostly by white women, even though northern states like New York had outlawed enslavement.

From National Geographic Kids

By feminists at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 who stated “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal.”

From Seattle Times

Besides the Nashville jump, she said her favorite event was a demonstration the team did in Seneca Falls, New York, home of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, widely considered the first women’s rights conference in the world.

From Seattle Times

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