Seneca Falls Convention

On July 19-20, 1848, approximately 300 people gathered at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, for the first women's rights convention organized by women in the United States. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott led the effort after women delegates were excluded from the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. The convention produced the Declaration of Sentiments, modeled on the Declaration of Independence, listing demands including property rights, education access, and suffrage. One hundred attendees signed the document.