USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leading women’s rights advocate who was a driving organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention. Stanton first became invested in women’s rights after talking to her father, a law professor, and his students.

Detailed explanation-2: -At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, a woman’s rights convention-the first ever held in the United States-convenes with almost 200 women in attendance. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American leader in the women’s rights movement who, in 1848, formulated the first organized demand for woman suffrage in the United States.