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Mar 5, 2010 · GraphicaArtis/Getty Images. The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending ...
- Women’s Rights Movement Begins. 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.
- Seneca Falls Convention. 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.
- Civil War and Civil Rights. 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 Constitution raised familiar questions of suffrage and citizenship.
- The Progressive Campaign for Suffrage 14 14 Images. This animosity eventually faded, and in 1890 the two groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Nevertheless, the History of Woman Suffrage remains the major primary source for information on the suffrage movement. The first volume, which appeared in 1881, recounts women’s earliest attempts to achieve equality with men. Volume II (1882) charts the suffragist movement from 1861 to 1876, focusing on the social role of women during the ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sep 27, 2024 · Nineteenth Amendment, amendment (1920) to the Constitution of the United States that officially extended the right to vote to women. Opposition to woman suffrage in the United States predated the Constitutional Convention (1787), which drafted and adopted the Constitution. The prevailing view within society was that women should be precluded ...
Aug 28, 2024 · Accessed 18 October 2024. Women’s suffrage is the right of women by law to vote in national or local elections. Women were excluded from voting in ancient Greece and republican Rome as well as in the few democracies that had emerged in Europe by the end of the 18th century. The first country to give women the right to vote was New Zealand (1893).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The two major women’s suffrage groups reunited in 1890 as the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association. By the 1880s, Stanton was 65 years old and focused more on writing rather than traveling and lecturing. She wrote three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage (1881-85) with Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage. In this comprehensive ...
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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 ...
