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How did the women' uffrage movement begin? What were the goal of the Seneca Fall Convention?

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It encouraged women to organize and petition for their rights.

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Seneca Falls Convention, an assembly held in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19-20, 1848, that launched the woman suffrage movement in the United States. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who co-conceived and directed the convention with Lucretia Mott, lived in Seneca Falls. The two feminist leaders had been barred from attending the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, an event that solidified their resolve to fight slavery.

Stanton read the "Declaration of Sentiments" at the 1848 convention, a list of grievances and demands modeled after the Declaration of Independence. It encouraged women to organize and petition for their rights. The convention passed 12 resolutions, 11 unanimously, to gain certain rights and privileges denied to women at the time. The ninth resolution, which demanded the right to vote, was narrowly passed on Stanton's insistence, subjecting the Seneca Falls Convention to subsequent ridicule and causing many supporters of women's rights to withdraw their support. Nonetheless, it was a cornerstone of the women's suffrage movement, culminating in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.

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