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The Seneca Falls Convention was a meeting of supporters of women’s rights in the United
States. The meeting took place on July 19–20, 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York. It helped to
launch the U.S. campaign for women’s suffrage, or the right to vote. (C

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Held in Seneca falls, New York, on July 1920, 1848, The convention was the first large gathering on women's rights. over 3 hundred people attended this event. Many important figures in women's rights gave speeches and the changing role of women in societies eyes was a hot topic. This is considered the first big convention in women's rights. (A

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Many women served as nurses during the civil war.
-"Created Equal" book page 14

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"In the end, 68 women and 32 men signed the declaration (Of sentiments). The woman suffrage movement had begun."

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"Mott was angered by the way women were treated"
-"Created Equal" Book page 9

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"Many Male reformers did not think women should work along side them."
-"Created Equal" Book page 9

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the abolitionist movement helped woman realize that their situation was like that of the slaves
-"Created Equal" Book page 7

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Many woman worked for the temperance movement which was a movement to stop heavy drinking. "Woman and children were the chief victims of male drunkenness."
-"Created Equal" book page 6

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Many people believed that a woman should stay in her "Sphere, or natural place, full of things like children, gossip, fashion and cooking.
-"Created Equal" Book page 5

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1840-1920 Woman Campaign for the right to vote
-"Created equal" Book cover

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At the Seneca Falls Convention they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments.

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The women 'fought' for the right to vote/ It was then narrowly approved (They could vote after) (D)

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Modeled after Constitution. A list of grievances that women had that they wanted addressed. (E)

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Newspapers spread the word about the "Rebellion" for woman's rights (D)

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""was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the
race demands that she be recognized as such.""  (D)

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-"Lucretia Mott, Jane Hunt, Martha Coffin Wright, and Mary Ann
M'Clintock--had organized the convention." (D)

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and Stanton combined their abilities and led the
movement that would eventually win women the right to vote. (B)

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"Born into a Quaker family, Lucretia Mott became a minister in 1821 at the age of 28. When the
Quakers split in 1827 following arguments over creed and authority, she supported the more
liberal faction. Lucretia and her husband, James Mott, were abolitionists, and their home was a
station on the Underground Railroad.
In 1848, Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the Women's Rights Convention in
Seneca Falls, New York. That gathering produced the Declaration of Sentiments, modeled on
the Declaration of Independence. It read in part: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that
all men and women are created equal....""
(D)

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In 1848 the Seneca Falls Convention became the first meeting in the US about Women's rights. "In a document called the Declaration of Sentiments, they wrote, "We hold these truths to be self- evident: that all men and women are created equal." They went on to list their grievances, just as Thomas Jefferson had
done for the colonists in the Declaration of Independence." (B)

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This document shows how women started losing their rights. It basically said that women cannot own property unless their husbands agree to it. Next is they get paid less, and last is that they get treated poorly and can get beaten with it being legal.

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"At a anti slavery convention, women there were made to sit off to the
side in a curtained room and were not permitted to speak out. ":(B)

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Woman could not vote, sit in juries, or hold public office. In most states, a married woman's property belonged to her husband, and if a couple divorced, the children were the husband's :( Only ONE collage in the US accepted woman. "Many people believed that woman only needed to learn things that would help them be good wives and mothers. Few woman received more than a grade school education."
-"Created Equal" Book page 4+5

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"Women
were expected to obey their fathers or husbands. Few states
gave married women legal right to own property. In no state
did they have rights to keep their earnings or their children.
The professions that were open to women-almost exclusively
writing and school teaching-paid them much less than they did men. Women could not be licensed in law or medicine, and
only one liberal arts college in the nation admitted females."  (B)

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"Stanton proposed to another abolitionist, or antislavery activist, Lucretia Mottthat they do something about
women's rights when they returned home."  (B

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-Frederick Douglass-
"He escaped to the north from Maryland and fought for rights of all kinds of people such as Indians, colored people,  women, the poor and the Chinese. One of the most famous men in America. During the
Civil War, Douglass became an adviser to President Abraham
Lincoln and recruited black soldiers to the Union cause. After
the war he held many government appointments, inciuding
ambassador to Haiti." (B)