Seneca Falls Convention
Historic suffrage assembly
The Seneca Falls Convention was an 1848 gathering in Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the organized women's rights movement in the United States.
Organizers including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott presented the Declaration of Sentiments, modeled on the Declaration of Independence, asserting that "all men and women are created equal." The convention is often cited as the birthplace of American feminism.
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- suffragette movementCampaign for female enfranchisement
- women's rights movementCampaign for female equality
- feminist activismOrganized pursuit of gender equality
- gender equalityEqual treatment regardless sex
Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Frederick Douglass · Susan B. Anthony · temperance movement · educational reform · Civil War · Progressive Era · Sojourner Truth · 1848 · feminism · civil rights movements · natural rights · political reform · human rights · workplace equality · Equal Rights Amendment · right to vote · suffrage parade
Seneca Falls ConventionJim Crow laws
Post-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
Fugitive Slave Act · Dred Scott decision · social conservatism
Seneca Falls Conventionvoter suppression
Tactics discouraging ballot access
poll taxes · literacy tests · grandfather clauses · disenfranchisement
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