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  2. Seneca Falls Convention - Wikipedia

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    The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. [1] Its organizers advertised it as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls , New York , it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848.

  3. Declaration of Sentiments - Wikipedia

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    The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, [1] is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women. Held in Seneca Falls, New York, the convention is now known as the Seneca Falls Convention.

  4. James Mott - Wikipedia

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    James chaired the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 on July 19 and 20 at which his wife was the main speaker. He was the only male to have chaired a women's rights convention. [3]

  5. Lucretia Mott - Wikipedia

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    In 1848, Mott and Cady Stanton organized the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, at Seneca Falls, New York. [55] [56] Stanton's resolution that it was "the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise" was passed despite Mott's opposition. Mott viewed politics as ...

  6. History of the United States (1815–1849) - Wikipedia

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    The American Anti-Slavery Society welcomed women. Garrison along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were so appalled that women were not allowed to participate at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London that they called for a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.

  7. On this day, the Seneca Falls Convention begins - AOL

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    On July 19, 1848, the first women's rights convention in the United States began at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York.

  8. Amy Post - Wikipedia

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    The Declaration of Sentiments, signed by Amy Post and other attendees of the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848. Two weeks later, she and several other women who had participated in the Seneca Falls Convention organized the Rochester Women's Rights Convention in the Post's hometown of Rochester, New York. A ...

  9. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident.' The Declaration of ...

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    In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political ...