Seneca Falls Convention begins

At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, the first-ever women's right conference in the United States convenes with almost 200 women in attendance. Organized by abolitionists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the convention's final resolution established “that it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.”

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