History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1857 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Seneca Falls
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The idea
About three hundred women and men, many of them drawn from abolition, met at Seneca Falls, New York in eighteen forty-eight in a convention organised by Mott and Stanton.
In practice
The first of what became a series of continuing annual gatherings.
Where people slip
They adopted a Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, and they modelled it deliberately on the Declaration of Independence.
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