Passage One of the most important events along the path to equal rights for American
women was the Seneca Falls Convention. The conference a large meeting of
women interested in expanding women's rights took place in Seneca Falls New
York in the summer of 1848. At the time, women were not allowed to inherit
property serve on a jury, or vote, and many women believed that these
restrictions needed to change. So women gathered and listened to presentations
and arguments by famous speakers like Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton. At the end of the conference, more than 100 attendees signed a petition
urging the United States to grant women the right to vote
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Seneca Falls had always been a quiet town and Betty had always been a quiet
sunt but not this weekend As Betty watched fascinated groups of women
marched all over town in and out of lecture halls and tea houses, talking, always
talons - sometimes smiling and laughing, but mostly arguing seriously over
women's work women's lives and women's rights Peering around comers. Betty
istened eyes wide thinking for the first time about her own life and what it
might hold Yes she loved and she was sure she would love her husband
Someday but did she really want them to decide everything for her?
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