Important People
This woman helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and wanted equal rights for women.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
The first women’s rights meeting in the United States took place in this town.
What is Seneca Falls?
This law said that husbands controlled their wives' property and money.
What is coverture?
This man was a former slave who worked to end slavery and supported women's rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This event in 1848 is where many women and men came together to talk about women’s rights.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Before the Seneca Falls Convention, women were not allowed to do this important thing in a democracy.
What is vote?
This woman was a Quaker preacher and helped fight for women's rights and the end of slavery.
Who is Lucretia Mott?
This document, written during the Seneca Falls Convention, asked for equal rights for women.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This was a key idea in the Declaration of Sentiments: all men and women should be treated this way.
What is equal?
This woman became passionate about women's rights after talking with her father.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This year is when the Seneca Falls Convention took place.
What is 1848?
The Seneca Falls Convention wanted women to have more of these, including jobs and education.
What are rights?
This woman worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to plan the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Lucretia Mott?
This type of right, where people can vote, became a big focus of the women's rights movement.
What is woman suffrage (the right for women to vote)?
Women fought for the right to do this, but it was a controversial idea at the Seneca Falls Convention.
What is vote?