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The Seneca Falls Convention was an early and influential women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York over two days, July 19–20, 1848. It was the first ever women's rights meeting to happen in the United States, The meeting was lead by two main women, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Staton.
Lucretia Mott was born into a Quaker family in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Her interest in women's rights began when she discovered that male teachers at the school were paid three times as much as the female staff. She despised slavery. She thought of it as being evil and wanted it to be abolished. She parted with the mainstream women's movement in one area which was divorce. It was very difficult to get divorce back then. She wanted to make it easier to obtain divorce. She became friends tieh Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Seneca Falls Convention.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York. She presented the Declaration of Sentiments at the convention and is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States. What the Declaration of Sentiments was was a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men. She was the principal author of the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments. She based it on the form of the Declaration of Independence.
After the convention, the press was printing all kinds of stories about it. Some good, some bad. ''it being the first convention of the kind ever held, and one whose influence shall not cease until woman is guaranteed all the rights now enjoyed by the other half of creation,'' said the National Reformer. There were also many conventions after the original which lead to women's rights improving over the years until they got where we are today.
If it wasn't for the Seneca Falls Convention, who knows where women's rights would be right now. They could still be almost nonexistant such as so long ago. The convention truly helped America get where it is today.
