USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Book/Printed Material The first convention ever called to discuss the civil and political rights of women, Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19, 20, 1848.

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: -In 1832, the Anti-Masonic party held the first national political convention ever, because they wanted to open up the presidential nominating process to the voters. For the first time, the process included delegates (individuals that are chosen to select the candidate to represent the party).

Detailed explanation-4: -From May to September 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention hammered out the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia.

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.