In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott convened the Seneca Falls Conference to address women's liberation and produced The Declaration of Sentiments, which laid out a list of facts pertaining to injuries done to women by men. Given your knowledge of the first wave of the women's movement, what do you think was first on their list?
A) "He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns."
B) "He has created a false public sentiment by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women, by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society, are not only tolerated, but deemed of little account in man."
C) "He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise."
D) "He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead."
E) "He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice."

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The first item on the list in The Declaration of Sentiments was "He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise," which relates to women not being allowed to vote. This was a major issue addressed by the first wave of the women's movement.

In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott Convened the Seneca