The following which best describes the American public's reaction to the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments was that "Most people, including women, did not embrace the Declaration's proposals and were opposed to women's rights." This was because at the time there were still strict conventional ideas around women being in the house, and although many people admired what the declaration stated, even some feminists at the time, believed it would undermine the women's rights movements, because they saw it as too "strong" for its' time.
