Seneca+Falls+VM

=**//__Seneca Falls Convention __//**= ====The Seneca Falls Convention, in 1848, was the first national women's rights convention and a pivotal event in the story of U.S. and women's rights. The reason the convention was even an idea started in London in 1840, when Elizabeth Caddy Stanton and Lucretia Mott were attending a meeting of the World Anit-Slavery Society, when they were denied the opportunity to speak from the floor or to be seated as delegates. Mott and Stanton left the hall where the meeting was, and began to talk about the fact that while they were trying to secure rights for African American slaves, American women found themselves treated unequally in a lot of ways. That is why the Seneca Falls Convention started . ====