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

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 was attended mostly by white women, even though northern states like New York had outlawed enslavement.

From National Geographic Kids • Feb. 25, 2020

The beginning of this struggle can be traced to the famous Seneca Falls Convention, which was held from July 19 to July 20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler