Seneca Falls Convention: The Women's Suffrage Movement

Seneca Falls Convention The Seneca Falls Convention led to many great people and many events. It was the key to women’s rights and equality for all. It was started because of women who were kicked out of a meeting since they were a girl. It led to the women’s suffrage movement, the making of more resolutions, and more leadership for all of the women. They began to accept women more and more over time. The Women’s Suffrage movement was and effect of the Seneca Falls Convention. The making of more resolutions actually made their rights happen. They also got leadership and were inspired by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. The resolutions they made during the meetings had to go through many steps. The main goals of all these resolutions

It was similar to the phrase all men are created equal. In the declaration of sentiments, it says all man and women are created equally. This was one is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women. The main author of this piece was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In total, there were 12 resolutions that got passed in the very end.

The Seneca Falls Convention was leading to the Woman’s Suffrage Movement. It continued on for the next 50 years starting in 1848. The 2 leaders of this was Anthony Cady Stanton and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. These movements happened during a similar time of the Seneca Falls Convention. Unlike the Seneca Falls Convention which were just meetings and making resolution, the Women’s Suffrage Movement was an actual protest. Not many people listened to them though since they were a disenfranchised group.

The women decided that the only way that they could get people to listen to them was to gain the right of voting. They formed the group, National American Woman Suffrage Movement. Women were protesting in front of the white house to pass a woman suffrage

This group was ran by a woman named Alice Paul. This organization stood for women’s rights but in a more militant way. They also protested in front of the white house. They wanted President Wilson and congress to pass their rights. Both group believed they were doing the right thing. Their efforts were finally rewarded in 1920. There was the 19th amendment which enfranchised women. This was a very big victory for them. Since it was so great, it was considered the greatest accomplishment in the progressive era. It was the country's biggest extension that the nation ever made. It was also great because it was made peacefully.

Many women were inspired to take matters into their own hands after the Seneca Falls Convention. They looked up lots of important women. One of them is Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was one of the main leaders. She started this whole thing with her partner she met in the 1840 Anti Slavery Convention. She wrote and lectured on women's rights and other reforms in the meetings.

Her partner that she met at the 1840 Anti Slavery Convention was Lucretia Mott. She was with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in whatever she did. The 2 women worked with Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt who assisted them too. They helped send out calls for the women conferences held at the Seneca