History Now Essay The Seneca Falls Convention: Setting the National Stage for Women’s Suffrage Judith Wellman Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On July 19–20, 1848, about 300 people met for two hot days and candlelit evenings in the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, in the first formal women’s rights convention ever held in the United States. Sixty-eight women ... Appears in: 7 | Women's Suffrage Spring 2006