Seneca falls

The Seneca Falls Convention, held in upstate New York over two days in July 1848, was the first women’s rights convention in the United States.

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The Seneca Falls Convention was a meeting held at Seneca Falls. It’s purpose was to discuss women’s rights. The convention was help in New York in 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.

Seneca Falls is a lovely quaint town in the Finger Lakes region in New York.

Seneca Falls Convention, assembly held on July 19–20, 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the woman suffrage movement in the United States. Seneca Falls was the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who, along with Lucretia Mott, conceived and directed the convention.

The 1848 historic event triggered the women's rights movement in America.

Seneca Falls, NY - site of the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848, the first meeting to advocate women's rights

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1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls and Rochester | New York Heritage

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