The Seneca Falls convention was called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott out of their anger with male abolitionists and the patriarchal system that they represented. In 1840, when Stanton and Mott attended the World's Anti-Slavery Conv

A coincidence of events at the turn of the century helped strengthen the suffrage movement. During the Progressive Era, all reform efforts became revitalized. Millions of women started addressing severe social problems, which brought them into the public eye. As their roles in society grew, they started to become part of mainstream politics. However, after recognizing that most of the reform that they sought was regulated by law, and that legislators responded to voters, they realized that the policies they were advocating could only be achieved through voting. So not long after the start of the 20th century, the idea of woman suffrage had become part of mainstream politics.

ention, the predominately male convention refused to seat female delegates. Stanton and Mott, along with other activist women in the U.S. started to see the similarities

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