Women have been almost consistently denied the right to vote since the formation of the United States. During the anti-slavery campaign in the early 1800s, a push for women’s suffrage arose. They called for a convention to examine women’s rights in July 1848, and the convention gathered in Stanton’s hometown of Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19–20, 1848, and issued a resolution calling for women’s suffrage and the right to education and job opportunities. In 1850, Lucy Stone and a handful of notable Eastern suffragists convened the first national conference of the women’s movement in Worcester, Massachusetts. The first collaborative initiative between Stanton and the energetic suffragist leader Susan B. Anthony took place at a conference in Syracuse, New York, in 1852; together, these two leaders led the American suffragist movement for the next 50 years.