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	The Seneca Falls Convention: Teaching about the Rights of Women and the Heritage of the Declaration of Independence. ...
		At Seneca Falls, New York in the summer of 1848, a group of American men and women met to discuss the legal limitations imposed on women during this period.
		Their consciousness of those limitations had been raised by their participation in the anti-slavery movement; eventually they used the language and structure of the Declaration of Independence to stake their claim to the rights they felt women were entitled to as American citizens.
		The Seneca Falls Convention is a part of this larger period of social reform movements, a time when concern about the rights of various groups percolated to the surface.
	ericdigests.org /2002-1/women.html (1668 words)

	Seneca Falls Convention :: The Encyclopedia of New York State :: Syracuse University Press
		The first women's rights convention in the United States (originally known as the Woman's Rights Convention) was held at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls (Seneca Co) on 19-20 July 1848.
		Seneca Falls was also the home of emerging women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
		On the first day of the convention nearly 300 participants heard speeches, the Declaration of Sentiments, and 11 resolutions proclaiming the natural equality of all people and declaring illegitimate all laws and social customs that subordinated women.
	www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu /encyclopedia/entries/seneca-falls-convention.html (644 words)

	Seneca Falls Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Seneca Falls Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19 to July 20, 1848, was the first women's rights convention held in the United States, and as a result is often called the birthplace of the feminist movement.
		At Seneca Falls, New York, in the summer of 1848, a group of American men and women met to discuss the legal limitations imposed on women during this period.
		Seneca Falls was in a key location at the time, on the Great Western Highway which ran west from Albany, giving travelers access to the West.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seneca_Falls_Convention (1742 words)

	The Seneca Falls Convention: Teaching about the Rights of Women and the Heritage of the Declaration of Independence. ...
		At Seneca Falls, New York in the summer of 1848, a group of American men and women met to discuss the legal limitations imposed on women during this period.
		The Seneca Falls Convention is a part of this larger period of social reform movements, a time when concern about the rights of various groups percolated to the surface.
		Especially useful for teachers and students is a time line placing the Seneca Falls Convention within the context of other political and cultural events of the 1840s and 1850s.
	www.ericdigests.org /2002-1/women.html (1668 words)

	Women's Rights National Historical Park - Womens Rights National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)
		In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and four other women invited the public to the First Women's Rights Convention to discuss expanding the role of women in America.
		Learn why the First Women's Rights Convention was held in the Seneca Falls, join a ranger for an interpretive program, and visit all the park sites.
		Seneca Falls hosted the First Women's Rights Convention, learn about the people who organized it, the people who came, and what happened next...
	www.nps.gov /wori (197 words)

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		The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat Mott and other women delegates from America because of their sex.
		The convention, to take place in five days' time, on July 19 and 20 at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls, was publicized only by a small, unsigned notice placed in the Seneca County Courier.
		The proceedings in Seneca Falls, followed a few days later by a meeting in Rochester, brought forth a torrent of sarcasm and ridicule from the press and pulpit.
	www.npg.si.edu /col/seneca/senfalls1.htm (803 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (1994): Chapter Five: Seneca Falls (11/11) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The convention would be put on hold until eight years later, when the two organized the first women's rights convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
		Convention attendees passed the resolutions unanimously with the exception of the one for women's suffrage.
		Soon other women's rights conventions were held, and other women would come to the forefront of the movement for political and social equality.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/H/1994/ch5_p11.htm (472 words)

	DOCUMENT 5 (1: 67-74): Seneca Falls Convention, Seneca Falls, New York, July 19-20, 1848, including the Declaration of ...
		WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION.-A Convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman, will be held in the Wesleyan Chapel, at Seneca Falls, N. Y., on Wednesday and Thursday, the 19th and 20th of July, current; commencing at 10 o'clock am.
		As the convention was to assemble in three days, the time was short for such productions; but having no experience in the modus operandi of getting up conventions, nor in that kind of literature, they were quite innocent of the herculean labors they proposed.
		Conventions were held soon after in Ohio, Massachusetts, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and at different points in New York.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /history/dubois/classes/995/98F/doc5.html (2272 words)

	"Expectant at Seneca Falls," Appendix
		Her statue in Seneca Falls is testimony for the ages that the bearing of children does not preclude women from making important public contributions to society.
		According to Judith Wellman, foremost expert on the convention, of all the women at Seneca Falls, only these three "became figures of national importance."[2] The lives of Mott and Stanton have been described in numerous biographies, but Wright has been relatively neglected, obscured by the fame of her older sister, Lucretia Mott.
		Over the teacups the five women decided to call a Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, and their first call for the historic event appeared in the Seneca County Courier on Tuesday, July 11.[10] Based on the discussion at the tea party, Stanton drafted the historic Declaration of Sentiments.
	womhist.binghamton.edu /mcw/append.htm (4965 words)

	Celebrating Women's History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Seneca Falls continued to be the center of the women's rights movement until the Civil War because it was the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
		Her success at the 1848 convention would also shape the strategic approach she used the rest of her long life, for Stanton consistently pushed just a little beyond what others, be they Mott, Anthony, her husband or the National American Woman Suffrage Association, thought public opinion would permit.
		At the 50th convention of NAWSA in 1919 President Catt proposed a League of Women Voters to "finish the fight" and "aid in the reconstruction of the nation." The fight to be finished was winning national woman suffrage and eliminating other forms of political and legal discrimination against women.
	www.scn.org /civic/lwvseattle/women.html (9455 words)

	Seneca Museum of Waterways and Industry - Seneca Falls, NY
		Seneca Museum of Waterways and Industry - Seneca Falls, NY Overlooking the Cayuga-Seneca Canal
		The Seneca Museum celebrates historic Seneca Falls, Seneca County, and the Finger Lakes region of central New York State.
		The Museum's south entrance is on the award-winning Canal harbor.
	www.senecamuseum.com (217 words)

	Seneca Falls, NY - Historic Gateway to the Finger Lakes
		The Veterans Atrium was installed to honor the brave men and women from Seneca Falls who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
		The Seneca Falls Farmers Market will take place every Wednesday in People’s Park from 9 AM to 2 PM and we are looking for vendors.
		This show combines the farming expertise of the Extension with the marketing expertise of the Seneca Falls Development Corporation and promises to be a great addition to the events held in our village.
	www.senecafalls.com (1141 words)

	Close Up Foundation Civics Education \| Declaration of Sentiments Seneca Falls
		We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
		We hope this Convention will be followed by a series of conventions embracing every part of the country.
		Whereas, the great precept of nature is conceded to be that "man shall pursue his own true and substantial happiness." Blackstone in his Commentaries remarks that this law of nature, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other.
	www.closeup.org /sentimnt.htm (1258 words)

	REPORT of the WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION
		A Convention to discuss the SOCIAL, CIVIL, AND RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF WOMAN, was called by the Women of Seneca County, N.Y., and held at the village of Seneca Falls, in the Wesleyan Chapel, on the 19th and 20th of July, 1848.
		The object of the meeting was then stated by ELIZABETH C. STANTON; after which, remarks were made by LUCRETIA MOTT, urging the women present to throw aside the trammels of education, and not allow their new position to prevent them from joining in the debates of the meeting.
		The Declaration of Sentiments, offered for the acceptance of the Convention, was then read by E. A proposition was made to have it re-read by paragraph, and after much consideration, some changes were suggested and adopted.
	www.luminet.net /~tgort/convent.htm (1859 words)

	senecafalls.rights
		In July of 1848, the first American convention to focus on women's rights was held at Seneca Falls, New York.
		Press coverage for the Sencea Falls Convention, although widespread and mixed, was generally hostile.
		With contempt and ridicule, most journalists characterized the convention as "The Reign of Petticoats," "Bolting Among the Ladies," "Petticoats vs. Boots," and "Insurrection Among Women." Intent upon discrediting the work at Seneca Falls, James Gordon Bennett published the entire Delcaration of Sentiments in his New York Herald, inadvertently providing free dissemination of the manifesto.
	www.lclark.edu /~ria/senecafalls.rights.html (2481 words)

	Seneca Falls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seneca Falls refers to a town and a village in Seneca County, New York:
		The Seneca Falls Convention was the birthplace of the American women's rights movement.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seneca_Falls (96 words)

	Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mott in planning a women’s rights convention in the U.S. A few months earlier the two feminist leaders had worked successfully for the passage of the New York Married Women’s Property Act, modifying the common law by recognizing a married woman’s rights to her separate property.
		The Seneca Falls Convention, held at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls, NY (July 19-20, 1848) ushered in the modern feminist movement.
		Held at the Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, NY, under the leadership of Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, adopted a group of women’s rights resolutions (i.e., the “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments”), including a demand for female suffrage, and a diminution of discrimination in employment and education.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~mwfriedm/terms/le9.html (467 words)

	Feminism and Women's Studies: Seneca Falls Declaration
		Text of the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, prepared by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
		We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
		Resolved, That the speedy success of our cause depends upon the zealous and untiring efforts of both men and women, for the overthrow of the monopoly of the pulpit, and for the securing to woman an equal participation with men in the various trades, professions, and commerce.
	feminism.eserver.org /seneca-falls.txt (1271 words)

	Education World ® : Great Sites For Teaching About: The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
		At the World's Anti-Slavery Convention, where reform-minded people like the Motts and the Stantons had the connection between the status of women and slavery made evident; Mott, Stanton, and other female delegates were denied seats at the male-dominated conference.
		This account of the Seneca Falls Convention -- which also has links to portraits of 19-century social reformers who figured prominently in the women's rights movement -- is part of the Web site of the National Portrait Gallery.
		Because it was considered "unseemly" for a woman to conduct a public meeting in 1848, the Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls was actually chaired by a man: James Mott, husband of Lucretia Mott, one of the convention's organizers.
	www.educationworld.com /a_sites/sites032.shtml (1052 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Women's History \| Seneca Falls Convention: First Women's Rights Convention
		The convention was the brainchild of 32-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton, daughter of Margaret and Judge Daniel Cady and wife of Henry Stanton, a noted abolitionist politician.
		After Boston, life in Seneca Falls with its routine household duties seemed dull to Cady Stanton, and she renewed her protest against the conditions that limited women's lives.
		Although the gathering was a convention for and of women, it was regarded as "unseemly" for a lady to conduct a public meeting, so Lucretia's husband, James Mott, agreed to chair the two-day event.
	www.historynet.com /culture/womens_history/3028536.html?featured=y&c=y (1322 words)

	Seneca Falls Convention Center, United States - Seneca Falls Wedding Reception Event Planning Conference Center and ...
		A wedding reception in Seneca Falls is a party where your guests come to celebrate the beginning of your new life as a married couple.
		Seneca Falls corporate meeting and events - Banquet Rooms in Seneca Falls can be found from art deco styled interiors to modern styled interiors - in large, medium, and small sized meeting rooms.
		Seneca Falls group reservations could not be easier for your Seneca Falls group or tour group.
	www.meetingforce.com /seneca-falls-convention-center-wedding-reception-meeting-event-planning-conference-ct4393.html (669 words)

	Seneca Falls, NY - Historic Gateway to the Finger Lakes
		Seneca Falls, NY - Historic Gateway to the Finger Lakes
		The Seneca Falls Heritage Area interprets the Village’s development and role in the Reform Movements of the 19th century, focusing on the setting for the first Women’s Rights Convention in 1848.
		The Seneca Falls Heritage Area is part of New York State’s Heritage Area System, and shares its goals to further education, recreation, historic preservation, and economic revitalization of the village.
	www.senecafalls.com /history-heritage.php (232 words)

	Seneca Falls Convention
		The Seneca Falls convention of 1848 formally introduced several ideas: equal voting rights for men and women, equality regardless of gender, and equal opportunity for participation in commerce and trade.
		The Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention sparked to life a women's movement that is still changing the world today by improving the lives of women and, consequently, men everywhere.
		The Seneca Falls convention was the single most important catalyst in the women’s rights movement, contrary to the commonly accepted belief that it was merely the product of an inevitable social revolution.
	www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=80042 (239 words)

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		The main goal being worked towards at the convention was the removal of the social, religious, and political restraints that kept women from rising to their full potential as human beings.
		One specific convention was that of the Akron (Ohio) women’s convention on May 29, 1851 at which Sojourner Truth, a former slave, spoke.
		It was truly the first organized convention that had ever been seen, and the most momentous protest against the injustice that had been inflicted on the character and destiny of women for years.
	www.valdosta.edu /~jearmstr/writingsamples.htm (3256 words)

	History Now. The Historians Perspective
		Although the convention became best known for its demand for women’s right to vote, the Declaration of Sentiments covered a wide agenda, asserting that women should have equality in every area of life: politics, the family, education, jobs, religion, and morals.
		The convention was not the first time that women’s rights advocates legitimated their demands by an appeal to the Declaration of Independence.
		But it was the Seneca Falls convention, the brainchild of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, that brought national attention to the issue of women’s rights.
	www.historynow.org /03_2006/historian.html (1637 words)

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