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100 Years of the Women's Vote

Declaration of Sentiments

The first women’s rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention, is held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19 - 20, 1848. Attended by approximately 300 people, the convention was limited to women the first day, with men invited for the second. Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered her “Declaration of Sentiments,” which was followed by eleven resolutions. The ninth argued “That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise,” thus setting off the women's suffrage movement.

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1. Declaration of Sentiments The first women’s rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention, is held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19 - 20, 1848. Attended by approximately 300 people, the convention was limited to women the first day, with men invited for the second. Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered her “Declaration of Sentiments,” which was followed by eleven resolutions. The ninth argued “That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise,” thus setting off the women's suffrage movement.
2. 19th Amendment
3. The Woman's Journal
6. Voting Rights Act of 1965