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The Seneca Falls Convention

The Seneca Falls Convention. By: Ronnie Ecoff. Fact 1. The Seneca Falls Convention came about in the year of 1840 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucrieta Mott met at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London The conference forced women to sit separately because of their gender

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The Seneca Falls Convention

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  1. The Seneca Falls Convention By: Ronnie Ecoff

  2. Fact 1 • The Seneca Falls Convention came about in the year of 1840 • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucrieta Mott met at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London • The conference forced women to sit separately because of their gender • Stanton and Mott discussed holding a convention about women’s rights • Eight years later they held the Seneca Falls Convention

  3. Fact 2 • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Stanton was an abolitionist and a leader in the early women’s rights movements • Lucrieta Mott • Mott was an an abolitionist and a women’s rights activist

  4. Fact 3 • The Seneca Falls Convention was held from July 19-20, 1848 • This marked the first time that women came together, organized, for their rights as a group • This was also the first public meeting about women’s rights in the United States

  5. Fact 4 • There were about 300 people who attended the convention • There was also some men who attended, one of whom was Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave and the leader of the abolitionist movement.

  6. Fact 5Declaration of Sentiments • The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after the Declaration of Independence • Demanded for women to have equal rights in education and employment with men • 100 people signed it • First document pronouncing that women should have the right to vote

  7. Declaration of Sentiments • “We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men and women are created equal…” • “Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one half the people of this country...and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently (dishonestly) deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States.”

  8. Summary • Held July 19-20, 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucrieta Mott • 300 people attended it, one was Frederick Douglass • Declaration of Sentiments was signed, which was modeled after the Declaration of Independence • First organized public meeting about the rights of women in the United States

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