The Birth of Women's Suffrage

In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and other women called a women’s rights meeting in Seneca Falls, New York.  People came to view the Seneca Falls, NY gathering as the meeting that launched the suffrage movement.

To learn more, explore these links:

• http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/seneca-falls-meeting/

• https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-the-seneca-falls-convention-begins

• https://www.nps.gov/wori/index.htm

• https://www.history.com/topics/womens-rights/seneca-falls-convention

Grand Challenge: Understanding the American Experience

ERC Grand Challenges: For project design, for inquiry, for activism

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