In the United States, many states enacted property laws during the 1840's and 1850's. Such laws allowed married women to make contracts, to own property, to control their own earnings, and to have joint custody of their children. For example, in 1848 a New York law gave married women the right to retain control of their own real estate and personal property. The new laws especially aided widowed, deserted, and mistreated wives. Similar legislation passed in Britain and other Western countries during the middle and late 1800's. .
Which led us to the beginning of the women's movement in 1848 were women got together at Seneca Falls, New York and held the worlds first women's rights convention.
1848, which was the era when women in the United States demand equal rights with men and this, all happen at the Seneca Falls Convention. The Seneca Convention of 1848 was the first public appeal for the woman suffrage. The two reformers where Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, They were the ones who called the women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., where was Santon lived. The women and the men at the convention adopted a Declaration of Sentiments that called for women to have equal rights in education, property, voting, and other matters. This declaration used the Declaration as it's model and it said, "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal-.
In the 1850's several national women rights conventions to place. Women were fighting for change. Susan B. Anthony organized campaigns on behave of equal pay for female teachers and for equal property rights for women. Addressing women's rights conventions in 1855. Lucy Stone described the inspiration for her hard work. The Seneca Falls convention was the lead in to the campaign of 1869 for U.S. women rights.
In 1869 The National Woman Suffrage Association formed a campaign for the United States women's rights.