✦ History

Seneca Falls Convention

July 19–20, 1848 · Seneca Falls, New York

First women's rights convention in the United States. Its Declaration of Sentiments demanded equal rights for women, including the vote, and started the organised suffrage movement.

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Key people

Frederick Douglass participant, signed the Declaration of Sentiments Elizabeth Cady Stanton Organiser, Drafted the Declaration of Sentiments Lucretia Mott organizer, co-organized the convention

Participants

Before and after

Led to
Representation of the People Act 1918 February 6, 1918
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution August 18, 1920

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