Seneca Falls Convention (jul 19, 1848 – jul 20, 1848)

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The Seneca Falls Convention was the United States' first women's rights convention. The gathering, which took place in Seneca Falls, New York in July 1848, was the beginning of the women's suffrage movement, which gave women the right to vote more than seven decades later. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony was the convention organizer and they discussed the rights of voting and equality amongst men and women. As a result of this convention, the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in 1920, was approved 7 decades after the convention in Seneca Falls. The significance of this convention is that it paved the way for influential feminist activists to work in the 1950s and 1960s, entering a new era of women's rights and new hope.

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