Why did Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton decide to organize the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848? During an antislavery c
onvention, women activists were prevented from speaking, which made them focus on women’s rights. The two women saw how effective women organizers were in churches and other religious institutions and wanted to build on that. They wanted women to become leaders of a movement because men led the abolitionist and temperance movements. Because their involvement in other social movements had failed, they wanted to start something they thought could succeed.
They could not participate in a abolitionist meeting.
Explanation:
They were seeking to organize and advance the women's suffrage movement. The national meeting in Seneca Falls in New York in 1848 was the first women's rights convention to be held in the United States. The Declaration of Sentiments was signed by 68 women and 32 men who had been among the participants in the convention. The document was modeled after Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. In the way that Jefferson had listed grievances against the British monarchy, The Declaration of Sentiments listed grievances against how men oppressed women in regard to civil rights.
