Women's Rights: The Seneca Falls Convention

What was the primary focus of the Declaration of Sentiments presented at the Seneca Falls Convention?

What was the outcome of the Women's Movement that began with the Seneca Falls Convention?

What was significant about the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?

When did the Women's Movement, which began with the Seneca Falls Convention, achieve its major goal?

What was the approximate number of people in attendance at the Seneca Falls Convention?

What was the main goal of the early Women's Movement?

What was the significance of the Seneca Falls Convention?

What was the outcome of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1918?

Who were the main organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?

What was the location of the Seneca Falls Convention?

What was the main goal of the resolution that Frederick Douglass strongly argued for at the Seneca Falls Convention?

What was Lucretia Mott's occupation?

What was the name of the newspaper that Elizabeth Cady Stanton co-founded?

What was Mary M'Clintock's role at the Seneca Falls Convention?

Who was not present at the Seneca Falls Convention?

The first convention in the United States that specifically addressed women's rights.
Held on July 19-20, 1848, at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York.
Approximately 300 people attended.

Drafted by key players just before the convention.
Laid out the main ways in which women were currently oppressed.
Outlined the main goals and purposes of the Women's Movement, including fighting for women's right to vote.
Adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention.

To discuss the social, civil, and religious condition of women.
To demand specific rights for women, including rights of property, profession, and voting.
To increase equality within marriage, decrease economic dependence of women, and expand the meaning of selfhood for women.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Leading activist, writer, and speaker of the early Women's Movement.
Lucretia Mott: Quaker Minister, active in the Abolitionist and Women's Movements.
Frederick Douglass: Anti-slavery activist, author, and former slave, advocate for women's rights.
Mary M'Clintock: Dedicated to women's equality and abolition of slavery, active in the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia.
Susan B. Anthony: Key participant in the Women's Movement, organized for married women's property rights, votes for women, and abolition of slavery.

Spearheaded a decades-long early Women's Movement that resulted in several important advances in women's rights.
Led to the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1919, granting women the right to vote.
Influenced future social movements in the United States and abroad.