In July of 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott led the first women's rights convention in American history. Even though the convention was quickly put together and hardly publicized, over 300 men and women came to Seneca Falls, New York.  They came to protest the mistreatment of women in social, economic, political, and religious life.  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with others, wrote The Declaration of Sentiments, which was modeled after the Declaration of Independence.  They also published the Resolutions issued by the Convention.  These documents detailed the "injuries" and "usurpations" that men had inflicted upon women and demanded that women be granted all of the rights and privileges that men possessed, including the right to vote.

Seneca Falls Convention