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Seneca Falls Convention
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Seneca Falls Convention

(July 19–20, 1848) Assembly held at Seneca Falls, N.Y., that launched the U.S. woman suffrage movement. Initiated by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (who lived in Seneca Falls) and Lucretia Mott, the meeting was attended by more than 200 people, including 40 men. The group passed the Declaration of Sentiments, a list of grievances and demands modeled on the Declaration of Independence that called on women to organize and petition for their rights. A controversial demand for the right to vote passed by a narrow margin.


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The campaign for women's rights began in earnest in 1848 at a Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N.
The first Women's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, adopted a Declaration of Rights and Sentiments with twelve amendments.
Seneca Falls is the home of the NWHF because it was the site of the first women's rights convention in 1848.
 
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