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HISTORY OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN THE U.S.

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« Reply #75 on: July 19, 2008, 10:01:54 am »



ELIZABETH CADY STANTON


                                                                             

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The Seneca Falls Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19 to July 20, 1848, was the first women's rights convention held in the United States, and as a result is often called the birthplace of feminism.

Prominent at the 1848 convention were leading reformers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.

Different groups at different times have turned to the founding documents of the United States to meet their needs and to declare their entitlement to the promises of the Revolution of 1776. At Seneca Falls, New York, in the summer of 1848, a group of American women and men met to discuss the legal limitations imposed on women during this period.

Their consciousness of those limitations had been raised by their participation in the anti-slavery movement; eventually they used the language and structure of the United States Declaration of Independence to stake their claim to the rights they felt women were entitled to as American citizens
in the Declaration of Sentiments.

Seneca Falls was in a key location at the time, on the Great Western Highway which ran west from Albany, giving travelers access to the West. The village's water power spurred the development of manufacturing industries, most notably various mills and pump manufacturers. The village also was part of New York's canal system, as the Seneca River through the village had been turned into canals and connected to the Erie Canal.
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