Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention

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Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention Declaration of Sentiments reformer reform women’s movement women’s rights women’s rights movement suffrage women’s suffrage Not for Ourselves Alone Ken Burns Seneca Falls Convention Womens Rights Convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott Susan Athony Susan B Anthony

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English-Language Arts

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Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention

In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and three other white women convened the first Women’s Rights Convention in the United States. They held the convention in Seneca Falls, New York, with the goal of advocating for women’s legal rights and their representation in government. At the convention, Stanton read a Declaration of Sentiments, a speech modeled on the Declaration of Independence, which included a very controversial demand at the time—the right to vote for women.

This video is part of a lesson plan titled Declaration of Sentiments: Close Reading Activity.

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PBS Learning Media