3. Women's Rights Movement/Seneca Falls Convention: During the lo a Falls Convention: During the 1800s women fought for suffrage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the sene and Lucretia Mott organized the Seneca Falls Convention for Women's Rights in Seneca Falls, NY to draw attention to the problems wom delegates approved the Declaration of Sentiments, modeled after the Deciala Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and we ruths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal." WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE SENECA FALLS CONVENTION? *
to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women.” Organized by women for women, many consider the Seneca Falls Convention to be the event that triggered and solidified the women's rights movement in America.
