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Article: Time trip.(abolition and suffrage in the United States)(Brief Article)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- March 8, 2002
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* Not so long ago, women in the United States had very few rights. In the 1800s, women in the United States couldn't vote, and most states had laws limiting a woman's right to own property. Most colleges were closed to women, as were most professions.
* After being denied access to an antislavery convention in England because she was female, New Yorker Elizabeth Cady Stanton had had enough. Along with fellow abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott, Stanton organized the first women's rights convention in the United States, named the Seneca Falls Convention, which convened in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in July 1848. Between 100 and 300 people attended, including abolitionists ...