1918
1980
so that women could win the right to vote! (The term for the right to vote is "suffrage".)
yes, yes she did
Women who worked for suffrage won the vote by having Congress petitioned. This is what led to the creation of the 19th Amendment.
because they wanted women to have the vote.
Progressive women held extensive campaigns throughout the country lobbying to get the vote. They also used the constitution's goal of equality to argue that women should be allowed to vote.
people who where willing to fight for women to vote in elections (they didnt win! :( )
The women's suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States.
The women's suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States.
Russian women gained the right to vote in 1917, following the February Revolution. In the United States, women secured the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Therefore, women in the US won the right to vote three years after Russian women.
Pankhurst was a leading British women's rights activist who led the movement to win the right for women to vote
Women in New Zealand won the right to vote on September 19, 1883. Women in the United States won the right to vote on August 18, 1920.