When Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott Met at an anti-When Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott met at an anti-slavery conference in London they decided to hold the first women’s convention where the Declaration of Sentiments would be announced to the public.3 It was held in Seneca Falls at the Wesleyan Chapel for two days, which were the nineteenth and twentieth of July in 1848. The first day only invited ladies were permitted but the second day the public was allowed.4 Many newspapers printed the names of the signers of the Sentiments in ridicule. People thought the views of these women outrages and above all the right to vote was thought ridiculous. Although it was negative the attention the women were receiving actually helped them gain support for their ongoing struggle. People read about it and for once it got them thinking about the idea of a suffrage movement.6 Elizabeth Stanton continued her rallies and protests and soon came across another feminist ready for change named Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth and Susan formed the radical group National Women’s Suffrage Association.7 There was also another feminist group called the American Women Suffrage Association lead by a lady named CarrieChapman Catt8. The ladies held rallies and protested for a number of years till in 1878 when they decide to take another step and introduce the Nineteenth Amendment to Congress. This amendment was forty-two words and consisted ladies proposed there ideas of suffrage and the Declaration of Sentiments which was a list of rights that women were denied such as, “He has permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise” and “Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, her has oppressed her on all sides.”

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Also it contained twelve resolutions such as, “Resolved, That woman is man’s equal- was intended to be so by the Creator- and the Sentiments in ridicule. People thought the views of these women outrages and above all the right to vote was thought ridiculous. Although it was negative the attention the women were receiving actually helped them gain support for their ongoing struggle. People read about it and for once it got them thinking aboutthe idea of a suffrage movement.6 The ladies held rallies and protested for a number of years till in 1878 when they decide to take another step and introduce the Nineteenth Amendment to Congress. This amendment was forty-two words and consisted of two sections. The first section deals states “The right to the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Section two is as follows,“ Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” The women were told that they needed three fourths of the states to ratify.9 The real protesting then began.