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LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861

REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
At the ____ history is made because it is the first organized group which addresses the women’s suffrage movement and creates an organized attempt to earn women the right to vote.
A
New York State Convention
B
Abolitionist State Convention
C
Niagara Falls Convention
D
Seneca Falls Convention
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -On July 9, 1848 five women met in Waterloo, New York at the home of Jane and Richard Hunt. That day Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Martha Wright, and Mary Ann M’Clintock joined Jane Hunt in planning the First Women’s Rights Convention.

Detailed explanation-2: -Convention organizer Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her husband Henry B. Stanton were both well-known and active abolitionists. In fact, all five women credited with organizing the Seneca Falls Convention were also active in the abolitionist movement.

Detailed explanation-3: -Heralded as the first women’s rights convention in the United States, it was held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 and 20, 1848. At that conference, activist and leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted The Declaration of Sentiments, which called for women’s equality and suffrage.

Detailed explanation-4: -Seneca Falls Convention, assembly held on July 19–20, 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the woman suffrage movement in the United States. Seneca Falls was the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who, along with Lucretia Mott, conceived and directed the convention.

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