Women's rights convention

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Convention happened in

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Seneca Falls, New York
1848

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Seneca Falls declaration

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Lifted from Declaration of Independence
Role of women in society

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Wanted a change

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In position
In equality

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Declaration stated

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal”

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Wrote a catalogue

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Of wrongs committed by men against women
Similar to the wrongs George III committed against America itself

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“Her master”

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Comparing women to slaves
Subordination prevented women’s agency

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Challenged the

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Demand for women’s purity
Suggested there was a different code of morals for men and women

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Proved resolutions for

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Control over property
Legal equality

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Didn’t pass the demand

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To vote
Eventually passed with the help of Frederick Douglass

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Established an argument for

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Women’s rights movement

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Cult of true womanhood offered

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Ideas for reinterpretation
Was a central document in placing women on the political stage
Meant there was a possibility for women’s agency

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Women’s rights convention organised

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By local Quaker women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (not a Quaker)

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Convention planned

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During Lucretia Mott’s visit to the area

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Convention allowed

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott the voice they had been denied at the anti-slavery convention in London