Seneca Falls Convention

Examples of Seneca Falls Convention in the following topics:

• Women's Rights

  • The first women's-rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July of 1848.
  • The Seneca Falls Convention was hosted by Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann McClintock, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
  • This national convention brought together for the first time many of those who had been working individually for women's rights.
  • While conventions provided places where women could support each other, they also highlighted some of the challenges of unifying many different leaders into one movement.
  • Her "Declaration of Sentiments," presented at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, is often credited with initiating the first organized women's-suffrage movement in the United States.

• Gender Inequality in Politics

  • Even in democratic societies in which gender equality is legally mandated, gender discrimination occurs in politics, both in regards to presumptions about political allegiances that fall along gender lines, and disparate gender representation within representative democracies.
  • The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was a single step in a broad and continuous effort by women to gain a greater proportion of social, civil, and moral rights for themselves; but was viewed by many as a revolutionary beginning to the struggle for women's equality.
  • Mott, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1948, effectively launching the women's civil rights movement in the United States.

• Domesticity and "Domestics"

  • Early feminist opposition to the values promoted by the cult of domesticity culminated in the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and later influenced the second wave of feminism.
  • However, even after the Declaration of Sentiments was written at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848, the right to vote was not extended to women until 1920.

• The Women's Suffrage Movement

  • Within the United States, the first major call for women's suffrage took place in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Women's Suffrage

  • On July 19–20, 1848, in upstate New York, the Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights was hosted by Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann M'Clintock and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
  • In 1851, on a street in Seneca Falls, Anthony was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton by a mutual acquaintance, as well as fellow feminist Amelia Bloomer.
  • Anthony joined with Stanton in organizing the first women's state temperance society in America after being refused admission to a previous convention on account of her sex, in 1851.
  • Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States.

• Abolitionism and the Women's Rights Movement

  • For example only two women attended the Agents' Convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1836.
  • Women began to form their own abolition groups, organizing events such as the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837.
  • This convention brought 200 women to New York City, where they called for the immediate abolition of slavery in the US.
  • The 1848 Seneca Falls convention is one of the key early moments in the suffrage and women's rights movement in the US.
  • For example while Sojourner Truth spoke to the Women's Convention in Akron Ohio in 1851 there were conflicting reports over how the speech was received.

• The Campaign for Suffrage

  • In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, passed a resolution in favor of women's suffrage despite opposition from some of its organizers, who believed the idea was too extreme.
  • By the time of the first National Women's Rights Convention in 1850, however, suffrage was becoming an increasingly important aspect of the movement's activities.

• Republican Motherhood

  • Working on civil rights for enslaved people caused women to want more power for themselves, giving rise to the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 and the women's rights movement in the United States.

• Conclusion: Trends of the Gilded Age

  • Often the WCTU women took up the issue of women's suffrage, which had lain dormant since the Seneca Falls Convention.

• Women in the Early Republic

  • Lucy Stone met with Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and six other women to organize the National Women's Rights Convention in 1850.
  • This national convention brought together for the first time many of those who had been working individually for women's rights.
  • Following this inaugural 1850 convention, women's rights advocates held national conventions every year save one until the onset of the Civil War.
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton was conspicuously missing from most of these early conventions.
  • One young woman from the 1848 convention in Seneca Falls refused to ride in the same carriage as her, saying, "I wouldn't have been seen with her for anything, with those ideas of hers. " In 1851, she met 31-year-old Susan B.