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First Women’s Rights Convention: Seneca Falls Convention
Was a convention of 200 women and 32 men; organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who were also abolitionists… the developed the “Declaration of Sentiments,” which is document, outlining the rights that American women should be entitled to as citizens… It was based on the Declaration of Independence to parallel the struggles of the Founding Fathers with those of the women’s movement. -
National Woman Suffrage Association
22 years later the National Woman Suffrage Association is created to fight for women’s right to vote in state legislation The Seneca Convention simply argued that women should have equal status as men…. Women couldn’t vote, own property (their property went to their husbands), there were less opportunities for women to attend school and work…. Divorce laws also favored men... -
Colorado is the first state to adopt an amendment granting women the right to vote
24 years later Colorado is the first state to adopt an amendment granting women the right to vote The main goal of the National Woman Suffrage Association was to get laws passed for women's suffrage state by state. Colorado was the first official state to make it legal for women to vote. -
19th Amendment
26 years later there is an Amendment added to the constitution granting women the right to vote. It took 71 years after the first women’s convention, Seneca Falls... for women to gain access to the right vote anywhere America.
