The Seneca Falls Convention attempted to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women. "This formal public meeting on behalf of women's social and political equality was sparked by the politicization of women in the abolition movement, long-standing discussions of equality among New York State reformers, and an emerging determination among the first women's rights activists to redress gender inequality" (Seneca Falls Convention.). Americans idealized a shining city on a hill by creating equality among men and women in the United States.
The Seneca Falls Convention presented the Declaration of Sentiments as a solution. The Declaration used the Declaration of Independence as a guide and described women's oppressed condition. "Challenging current definitions of citizenship and the purported democracy arising from the American Revolution, the Declaration of Sentiments asserted women's equality based on their natural and constitutional rights and identified political rights as the remedy for inequality" (Seneca Falls Convention.).
The Seneca Falls Convention presented the Declaration of Sentiments as a solution. The Declaration used the Declaration of Independence as a guide and described women's oppressed condition. "Challenging current definitions of citizenship and the purported democracy arising from the American Revolution, the Declaration of Sentiments asserted women's equality based on their natural and constitutional rights and identified political rights as the remedy for inequality" (Seneca Falls Convention.).