Seneca Falls Convention

Examples of Seneca Falls Convention in the following topics:

• Women's Rights

  • The first women's-rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July of 1848.
  • The Seneca Falls Convention was hosted by Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann McClintock, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
  • This national convention brought together for the first time many of those who had been working individually for women's rights.
  • While conventions provided places where women could support each other, they also highlighted some of the challenges of unifying many different leaders into one movement.
  • Her "Declaration of Sentiments," presented at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, is often credited with initiating the first organized women's-suffrage movement in the United States.

• Domesticity and "Domestics"

  • Early feminist opposition to the values promoted by the cult of domesticity culminated in the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and later influenced the second wave of feminism.
  • However, even after the Declaration of Sentiments was written at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848, the right to vote was not extended to women until 1920.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Women's Suffrage

  • On July 19–20, 1848, in upstate New York, the Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights was hosted by Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann M'Clintock and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
  • In 1851, on a street in Seneca Falls, Anthony was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton by a mutual acquaintance, as well as fellow feminist Amelia Bloomer.
  • Anthony joined with Stanton in organizing the first women's state temperance society in America after being refused admission to a previous convention on account of her sex, in 1851.
  • Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States.

• The Campaign for Suffrage

  • In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, passed a resolution in favor of women's suffrage despite opposition from some of its organizers, who believed the idea was too extreme.
  • By the time of the first National Women's Rights Convention in 1850, however, gaining suffrage was becoming an increasingly important aspect of the movement's activities.

• Republican Motherhood

  • Working on civil rights for enslaved people caused women to want more power for themselves, giving rise to the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 and the women's rights movement in the United States.

• Conclusion: Trends of the Gilded Age

  • Often the WCTU women took up the issue of women's suffrage, which had lain dormant since the Seneca Falls Convention.

• Women in the Early Republic

  • Lucy Stone met with Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and six other women to organize the National Women's Rights Convention in 1850.
  • This national convention brought together for the first time many of those who had been working individually for women's rights.
  • Following this inaugural 1850 convention, women's rights advocates held national conventions every year save one until the onset of the Civil War.
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton was conspicuously missing from most of these early conventions.
  • One young woman from the 1848 convention in Seneca Falls refused to ride in the same carriage as her, saying, "I wouldn't have been seen with her for anything, with those ideas of hers. " In 1851, she met 31-year-old Susan B.

• From Annapolis to Philadelphia

  • Prior to the Philadelphia Convention, delegates met twice-—at Mount Vernon and Annapolis—to discuss changes to the Confederation.
  • Prior to the Annapolis Convention and the 1787 Philadelphia convention that saw the drafting of the United States Constitution, delegates from Virginia and Maryland met at George Washington's home at Mount Vernon, Virginia in March 1785.
  • These issues were not addressed directly by the Articles of Confederation, which regulated the thirteen largely independent American states at the time, nor by the authorization of the Potomac Company a year earlier which was to regulate the Potomac above the Great Falls.
  • In January 1786, Virginia invited all the states to attend a meeting on commercial issues that would be the ground-breaking Annapolis Convention, where twelve delegates from five states unanimously called for a constitutional convention.
  • The convention met in September 1786.

• The French and Indian War

  • A number of Senecas and other Iroquois also migrated to the Ohio Country, moving away from the French and British imperial rivalries south of Lake Ontario.
  • In 1756 and 1757, Britain suffered further defeats with the fall of Fort Oswego and Fort William Henry.
  • Between 1758 and 1760, the British military successfully penetrated the heartland of New France, with Quebec falling in 1759 and Montreal finally falling in September 1760.

• Calls for a Stronger Constitution

  • This meeting, which came to be known as the Mount Vernon Conference, preceded the Annapolis Convention of 1786 and was a precursor of the 1787 Philadelphia Convention that saw the drafting of the US Constitution.
  • These issues were not addressed directly by the Articles of Confederation, which regulated the 13 largely independent states at the time, nor by the authorization of the Potomac Company a year earlier, which was to regulate the Potomac above the Great Falls.
  • This would later become known as the groundbreaking Annapolis Convention.
  • In 1787, the Philadelphia Convention further expanded cooperation to include all states in an effort to reform or replace the Articles of Confederation with a new constitution.