Seneca Falls Convention

American  

noun

U.S. History.

1. a women's rights convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.

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Seneca Falls Convention Cultural  

1. The first convention in America devoted to women's rights. It met in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, and passed several resolutions, including a demand that women be given the right to vote.

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Example Sentences

By feminists at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 who stated “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2022

At the Seneca Falls Convention, Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which was modeled after the Declaration of Independence and proclaimed women were equal to men and deserved the same rights.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

This hidden character was a woman, an American amateur scientist and a suffragette who served on the editorial committee for the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention in the United States.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2020

She was also a prominent feminist and a signer of the declaration that emerged at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, one of the nation’s first organized events for women’s rights.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2020

The Seneca Falls Convention made headlines across the country.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling