Which 1848 gathering launched the organized U.S. women's rights movement in Seneca Falls, New York?

The Seneca Falls Convention launched the organized U.S. women's rights movement when it met in New York in July 1848.

Held on July 19 and 20 at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, the gathering was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt. About 300 people attended, including both women and men.

The convention issued the Declaration of Sentiments, a document modeled partly on the language and structure of the Declaration of Independence. It listed grievances against the legal and social restrictions imposed on women and called for equal civil rights. The resolution demanding women's voting rights was the most controversial of the convention's measures but was adopted.

The meeting did not immediately create voting rights. Instead, it gave national visibility to a reform movement that continued through petitions, speeches, organizations, and state campaigns. The Nineteenth Amendment finally prohibited denying the vote on account of sex in 1920.