July 13th 1848 marked the beginning of the Womens Rights Movement. During a tea party with her daughter and some friends Elizabeth Cady Stanton started talkinga about the rights women have and the rights that they should have. The rest of the women agreed with her and they decided to tell more women about what they were planning to do. Elizabeth C. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony organized a convention in which they would discuss the social, civil, religious conditions and rights of women. Almost 200 people attended to convention includeing Lucretia Mott. The convention took place at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19th and 20th 1848. At the convention a statment by Stanton was made which brought along the Declaration of Sentiments. That statement was "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward women having indirect object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this let the facts be submitted to a candid world." When the declaration was brought out to sign 68 women and 32 men signed it. The declaration outlines grievences and sets the agenda for the womens rights movement and includes 12 resolutions adopted calling for equal treatment of men and women under the law and voting rights of women.
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