Seneca Falls Convention

The Seneca Falls Convention was a meeting of people who supported Women's rights. It was at Seneca Falls, New York in on July 19 and July 20, 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a women's rights activist, wrote a "Declaration of Sentiments" that would list some things she believed and that would be talked about at the meaning. One of these ideas was that men and women are equal. Many of the people there were Quakers, which is a sect of Christianity. Over one hundred people who were there signed a document called the Seneca Falls Declaration. Both men and women signed it. One man at the meeting was Frederick Douglass.

Background

Many women were upset that they did not have the same rights as men. They could not vote, sign contracts, or buy property. If they were married, they had to give any money they earned to their husbands. тhey also made less money than men.

Seneca Falls Convention Media

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  Signers of the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls in order: Lucretia Coffin Mott is on top of the list

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  This mahogany tea table was used on July 16, 1848, to compose much of the first draft of the Declaration of Sentiments.

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  James and Lucretia Mott

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  Lucretia Mott was described as "the moving spirit of the occasion".

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  Frederick Douglass stood up to speak in favor of women's right to vote.

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  U.S. postage stamp commemorating the Seneca Falls Convention titled 100 Years of Progress of Women: 1848–1948 (Elizabeth Cady Stanton on left, Carrie Chapman Catt in middle, Lucretia Mott on right.)