Various Attendees

In July 1848, over three hundred people met in Seneca Falls, New York, to debate women’s rights. The convention was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, both of whom had been denied admittance to the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840, simply because they were women. This discrimination spurred these women to hold a convention with the primary goal of debating and ratifying a list of requirements to achieve women’s rights. Based on the Declaration of Independence, Stanton and Mott’s "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" lists a wide array of changes that need to be made in American society to secure adequate women’s rights. Primary among this list of demands was the right to vote. During the convention, it was this demand that caused the most controversy and was the only part...