First Women's Rights Convention Research Paper

The first day of the First Women’s Right Convention begins on July, 19, 1848. It the first one ever held in the United States at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York and have two hundred women that went to the convention. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Mott and Stanton worked with Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt in Stanton’s home sent out a call for women’s conference to held at Seneca Falls in 1848. The announcement was published in the Seneca County Courier on July 14 as the public is invited to attend on the second day when Lucretia Mott would be addressed the convention. The morning of the convention did not start very well as the door of Wesleyan Chapel was locked and none of them have the key to the door. A nephew of Elizabeth Cady Stanton had to climb through the window and open the door from the inside. Stanton read the Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances as it was model closely on the Declaration of Independence on July 19, 1848. The Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances gave detailed injustice that was inflicted on women in the United States; to called on all women to organized and petition for their

rights. The eleventh resolution that proposed women get the right to vote were debated and the decisions were put out off to the second day of the convention as men could vote on it.
The second day of the convention was held on July 20, 1848 as it was an important day.

Frederick Douglass was one of the men that came to the convention. The Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances war adopted and signed by the assembly. The convention passed twelve resolutions and eleven unanimously. The ninth resolution was only resolution that met opposition. Douglass sided with Stanton in arguing of the importance of female enfranchisement after a long debate and the resolution was passed. The debate was solved by putting the men’s signature below the women’s signature on the Declaration of Sentiments and Grievance as one hundred people signed it; sixty- eight were women and thirty- two were men. The resolution was the beginning of the women’ suffrage movement in

America.
The Seneca Falls Convention did not stop after the second day as there was reactions to it. Newspaper reacted with articles that mocked the convention and printed Declaration of Sentiments and Grievance to showed that it was a bad idea. Additionally, some of the signers removed their name from the Declaration of Sentiments and Grievance. The Seneca Falls Convention continued two weeks later with a meeting in Rochester, New York to continued of the efforts to get women the right to vote in 1850 with women chairing the meeting. Lucy Stone was the head organizer of organizing the convention in 1850. As a result, the nineteenth amendment was ratified in 1920 to allow women the right to vote in the U.S. Constitution after many years of struggling for women suffrage.