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Women's Rights Movement

Women’s Suffrage Movement At this time women were not allowed the right to vote (suffrage). Their increase in public life due to involvement in other reform movements left many women with desire to attain more rights. Led by activists such as Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (right)

Seneca Falls Convention (1848) Stanton and Mott organized the first Women’s Rights convention in New York in 1848. Known as the Seneca Falls Convention Issued the “Declaration of Sentiments” which modeled language from the “Declaration of Independence” to remind readers of the principles of equality upon which on nation was founded.