RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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500
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400
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300
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Despite the short notice and the organizers’ cautiously optimistic expectations, 300 women and men turned out for the convention. At its conclusion, 68 women and 32 men had signed a document calling for American women to be extended the same civil and political rights that American men enjoyed, including suffrage.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The Seneca Falls Convention was successful in that the organisers legitimised demands for women’s equality by appealing to the Declaration of Independence as the basis of their logic.
Detailed explanation-5: -Anthony and Stanton Meet Susan B. Anthony did not attend the Seneca Falls convention.