Seneca Falls
Women's rights convention
Seneca Falls is a village in upstate New York, historically significant as the site of the 1848 women's rights convention that produced the Declaration of Sentiments, a foundational document of the American women's suffrage movement.
The convention, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, is often cited as the birthplace of the organized feminist movement in the United States.
The museum at Seneca Falls chronicles the history of women's rights.
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
- gender equalityEqual treatment regardless sex
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- Finger LakesEleven glacial lakes in New York
Susan B. Anthony · civil rights · New York State · anti-slavery · Lucretia · 1848 · women's rights convention · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Frederick Douglass · moral reform · temperance · suffrage movement · right to vote · voting rights · Erie Canal · American Northeast · Stanton · vote
Seneca FallsDred Scott
Antebellum freedom-suit plaintiff
Jim Crow · disfranchisement · three-fifths compromise · poll taxes · literacy tests