Which reformer organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 to push for women's rights?

• A. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• B. Dorothea Dix
• C. Harriet Tubman
• D. William Lloyd Garrison

Answer: (A)

Organizing the Seneca Falls Convention highlights the moment when women’s rights advocacy became organized in the United States. Elizabeth Cady Stanton planned the 1848 gathering in Seneca Falls, New York, with Lucretia Mott, to discuss legal and social inequalities faced by women and to push for suffrage. The convention produced the Declaration of Sentiments, a foundational document calling for equal rights under the law. The other figures were known for different reform efforts: Dorothea Dix for mental health and asylum reform, Harriet Tubman for the Underground Railroad and abolition, and William Lloyd Garrison for abolition of slavery. So the reformer behind this pivotal event is Elizabeth Cady Stanton.