Search results
In the early 20th century, woman suffrage became a mass movement that effectively utilized modern publicity and outreach methods. Woman suffrage was never a “gift.”. Skillful organization, mobilization, and activism were required to build a powerful social movement and achieve the long-sought goal.
- Women’s Rights Movement Begins
- Seneca Falls Convention
- Civil Rights and Women's Rights During The Civil War
- Gallery: The Progressive Campaign For Suffrage
- Winning The Vote at Last
The campaign for women’s suffrage began in earnest in the decades before the Civil War. During the 1820s and '30s, most states had extended the franchise to all white men, regardless of how much money or property they had. At the same time, all sorts of reform groups were proliferating across the United States—temperance leagues, religious movement...
In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists—mostly women, but some men—gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the problem of women’s rights. They were invited there by the reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Most of the delegates to the Seneca Falls Conventionagreed: American women were autonomous individuals who deserved thei...
During the 1850s, the women’s rights movement gathered steam, but lost momentum when the Civil War began. Almost immediately after the war ended, the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment to the Constitutionraised familiar questions of suffrage and citizenship. The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, extends the Constitution’s protection to all citiz...
This animosity eventually faded, and in 1890 the two groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the organization’s first president. By then, the suffragists’ approach had changed. Instead of arguing that women deserved the same rights and responsibilities as men because women and men were “cre...
Starting in 1910, some states in the West began to extend the vote to women for the first time in almost 20 years. Idaho and Utah had given women the right to vote at the end of the 19th century. Still, southern and eastern states resisted. In 1916, NAWSA president Carrie Chapman Cattunveiled what she called a “Winning Plan” to get the vote at last...
Aug 26, 2020 · On August 26, 1920, the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment was certified, one hundred years ago today. The movement for women’s suffrage was national and indeed international, but if there was a focal point in the United States, it was the state of New York. The first women’s rights convention was held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York.
By the 1890s, the opposition officially started to organize. While some anti-suffragists supported the idea of women’s suffrage in theory, they opposed a national amendment that would impose this change on the states. Many also worried about the extension of suffrage to non-educated, non-white populations.
Working women started seeing the vote as a way to gain more political power to further these causes. Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of suffrage leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was among the first suffragists to recruit working women to support suffrage. She started collaborating with the Women’s Trade Union League, founded in 1905, to help ...
- 205 South Whiting Street Alexandria, VA, 22304 United States
- Info@NWHM.org
- (703) 461-1920
Jul 18, 2023 · Passed by Congress on June 4, 1919 and made into law in August 1920, the amendment gave women political power over 130 years after the nation’s founding. It was the culmination of a century of ...
People also ask
Why was the women's suffrage movement important?
What suffrage groups did working-class women organize?
How did women suffrage become a mass movement?
How long did the women's suffrage movement take?
Who fought for women's suffrage in the 15th Amendment?
Who wrote the ideas of the woman suffrage movement?
Oct 14, 2009 · Women gained the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment. On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised this right for the first time. But for almost 100 years ...
