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Seneca Falls
Married women in the United States could not at this date own property, make contracts or keep their own wages, and no woman had the vote anywhere in the country. The meeting grew out of abolitionism, and the link between the two causes was close until it broke: when the Fifteenth Amendment gave Black men the vote without mentioning women, the movement split bitterly. American women gained the vote in 1920, over seventy years after Seneca Falls, and only one participant lived to cast one. The standing of Haudenosaunee women in their own societies is documented as an influence on several of the organisers.
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