The Importance of the Seneca Falls Convention

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; Whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government.. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.(“Declaration of Sentiments.”).”

The Seneca Falls Convention’s importance is the Declaration of Sentiments and that the convention helped women gain the right to vote, as it had a long-lasting effect on the world of women’s suffrage. The Declaration of Sentiments is a document that states jobs and other roles that women weren’t allowed to do and was what the convention was centered around. The document addresses how the world makes it seem as though women are inferior to men and that they were involuntarily pushed into the roles society had deemed fit for women. The declaration was used to “employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the state, and national Legislators, and endeavor to enlist the pulpit and the press in our behalf (“Seneca Falls Convention”).” The Seneca Falls Convention provided solid points and support for over multiple decades (Callahan). Later in the year 1920, after so many years of struggling, with the help of the convention, women finally won the right to vote when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed (“Seneca Falls Convention”). Without the Seneca Falls Convention, women would not have as many opportunities as they do today.