USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Originally known as the Woman’s Rights Convention, the Seneca Falls Convention fought for the social, civil and religious rights of women.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention. It advertised itself as “a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.