USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Held in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, the meeting launched the women’s suffrage movement, which more than seven decades later ensured women the right to vote.

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: -The Seneca Falls Convention was followed two weeks later by an even larger meeting in Rochester, N.Y. Thereafter, national woman’s rights conventions were held annually, providing an important focus for the growing women’s suffrage movement.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The park commemorates women’s struggle for equal rights, and the First Women’s Rights Convention, held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY on July 19 and 20, 1848. An estimated three hundred women and men attended the Convention, including Lucretia Mott and Frederick Douglass.