How would women today feel if they were treated unfairly compared to men? While many are still treated differently today, in the 1800s this was disproportionate. The Seneca Falls Convention took place in Seneca Falls, New York in the 1840s. It changed the lives of many people. Previously, American women could not vote, attend college, and were limited to being housewives. The Seneca Falls Convention laid the foundation for early women's rights and solved many problems. Nearly three hundred people attended the convention. Most of them were women, but forty were men. Among men, Frederick Douglass, an African-American man, played a significant role in the women's rights movement. In 1848 Douglass signed the agreement. After attempting to attend a convention about slavery and not being allowed or included in the room, she knew it was time to change the way women were viewed and treated. In July 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott, an abolitionist and feminist, and together they brought forth the first women's rights convention in American history. Elizabeth was named president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1869 to 1890. Then, from 1890 to 1892, she was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. With the help of many other women, including Susan B. Anthony, ultimately known as the fighter who won women's right to vote, Elizabeth Stanton did everything she could to ensure women in America had the rights that they deserved. At the age of eighty Elizabeth Stanton wrote the "women's bible" declaring that religion was the main cause of the oppression of women, offending the Christian temperance movement and causing the alienation of suffrages. After being abandoned by her once loyal supporters, she fell into near obscurity. Susan B. Anthony took over from her mentor, traveling extensively and campaigning on behalf of women. In 1872 he took matters into his own hands and voted illegally in the presidential election. Susan B Anthony was arrested for the crime, unsuccessfully fought the charges, and was fined one hundred dollars which she never paid. Susan B Anthony Never Given Up From 1600 to 1840, minimal education was available to women. They couldn't attend college; so it was difficult for them to overdo anything other than kitchen or factory work. Once married, women immediately became the property of their husbands. With little education in job skills, women had no choice but to rely on men. The Seneca Falls Convention was a great step forward in trying to change the discrimination against women's abilities in the workforce