Tahlequah, Oklahoma

This location in modern-day is a city in Oklahoma called Tahlequah. Tahlequah currently is the site of a reservation for the Cherokee nation. This place was where the Cherokee people could finally settle after their miserable and painful forced trek across the country after President Andrew Jackson's signing of the Indian Removal Act in 1830 uprooted their lives.

Seneca Falls, New York

On July 19th, 1848, religious and political reformers met in the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York for the first formal convention on the subject of women's rights. 300 people, both men and women, attended the two day convention where eleven different resolutions on women's rights were discussed. The only one to not pass was the right to vote for women.

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