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A Suffragette is a women that fights for 

the right to vote.   Voting is important 

because you get the right to pick 

presidents and other leaders to help 

the country... and that’s a big deal!  

Women’s suffrage started in 1830, but 

women didn't get the right to vote until 

1920.

In 1848, two suffragettes, Lucretia Mott and 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, started a women's rights 

convention Seneca Falls, New York.   It was the first 

of it's kind in the U.S.A.   Many many people 

attended, including a number of men who felt the 

same way as the women.   The leaders of the 

convention felt that a key phrase was missing... 

they rewrote their Declaration to say "All men AND 

women are created equal."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in New York on Nov. 12th, 1815.   She loved going to her 

father’s law office as a child.   Elizabeth married Henry Brewster Stanton in 1840.

As a young woman, she was against slavery and listened to lots of speeches about changing 

slavery.   That’s how she met Lucretia Mott and her husband.   They agreed that they would 

one day organize a women’s rights convention.

Elizabeth was the first woman to speak in public and say that women should have the right 

to vote.   That was in 1848 at Seneca Falls.

When she was president of NWSA, she focused on women making the same money as men 

for work, women keeping the money from their job, and most importantly, women’s right to 

vote.

Elizabeth died Oct. 26th, 1902.   Her daughter Harriet Stanton Blatch continued to fight for 

women’s right to vote that Stanton had helped start.

Lucretia Mott was born in Massachusetts, on the island of Nantucket, on January 3rd, 

1793. Women often took care of everything while many of the men like her father, were on 

voyages.   Lucretia married a man named James Mott who was also a Quaker. 

Mott thought slavery was wrong and she wanted everyone to be free. In 1840 she went 

to an anti-slavery convention in London across the Atlantic Ocean. Since she was a 

woman, she had to sit with the visitors instead of the other delegates. At the London 

convention she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was from New York. Both were against 

slavery for African Americans and they both fought for womens rights.

In 1848, Mott and Stanton decided to hold a convention in Seneca Falls and talk about 

rights of women. 260 women and 40 men attended the convention that began on July 19, 

1848. 

After the convention, Mott continued to speak out about womens rights and the end of 

slavery. She died on January 26, 1868.

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