USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American leader in the women’s rights movement. In 1848, at the Seneca Falls Convention, she drafted the first organized demand for women’s suffrage in the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Her greatest contribution was by organizing the first Woman’s Rights Convention and co-authoring the Declaration of Sentiments. She also contributed significantly by being the first woman to point out the absence of women’s voting rights by controversially adding the grievance into the Declaration of Sentiments.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1848, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and several other women decided to call a women’s rights meeting in Seneca Falls, New York. About 300 people-including the former slave and prominent reformer Frederick Douglass-attended.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.