The Seneca Falls Convention: A turning point in history
How it all started
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a fellow women's rights supporter
The Women's Rights Movement marks July 13, 1848 as its birth date. On this sweltering day in Seneca Falls, NY, a young housewife, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and four women friends gathered for tea. When the conversation turned to the situation of women, Stanton pointed out her dissatisfaction with the limits placed on women's rights under America's democracy. Hadn't the American Revolution been fought just 70 years earlier to win the patriots freedom from tyranny? But women had not gained freedom even though they'd taken equally tremendous risks through those dangerous years. Thus, the plans for a convention began.
The convention, titled as "A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman." would take place at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls on July 19 - 20, 1848. Little did they know, this convention would start a huge uproar of attention and publicity from the general public.
The convention, titled as "A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman." would take place at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls on July 19 - 20, 1848. Little did they know, this convention would start a huge uproar of attention and publicity from the general public.
Thesis:
The Seneca Falls Convention was a turning point in history...
because without it, America's women would not have gained their rights until later as the start of the movement would have been postponed, resulting in a slowed expansion and growth of our economy.