What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

a. a meeting in upstate New York during the mid-nineteenth century regarding women's rights
b. the convention that wrote and debated the Fourteenth Amendment
c. an important gathering that initiated the abolitionist movement
d. the convention where leaders of the Confederacy and the Union negotiated the end of the Civil War


Answer: a. a meeting in upstate New York during the mid-nineteenth century regarding women's rights

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