In 1848 in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, a group of five women began a movement for women's rights that would transform American society. They summoned reformers from across the northeast to the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, where for two days as many as 300 women and men considered the role of women in a democratic society. They emerged with the Declaration of Sentiments, a document that shaped a reform movement for decades and continues today. The Wesleyan Chapel and the homes of some of the movement's organizers were places where radical thought turned into enduring improvement for millions across the world. Seneca Falls' industrial prominence and its railroads, canal, and turnpikes connected it to the wider nation, helping spread news of the first women's rights convention and its ideas far beyond the region. In 1851, the Earl of Carlyle introduced in the British House of Lords the first resolution in favor of women's voting rights. Achieving women's suffrage, however, took seven decades in America and eight in Great Britain.