Women's Suffrage

After many years of determined activism, women in the United States finally won the right to vote through the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. The Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Maud Wood Park were leaders of the woman's sufferage movement.
There were several leaders of women's suffrage (ex. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, etc.) Susan B. Anthony was the main leader
Susan B. Anthony
emmeline pankhurst you're welcome
There were two groups of the suffrage movement, the NUWSS (otherwise known as suffragists) lead by Millicent Fawcett and the suffragettes group, the WSPU, founded by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst. Another driving factor of the movement was Emily Davison who threw herself onto the race course at Epsom Derby.
elizabeth cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Many people participated, and the people who "led" is an opinion. Anyway, three people who helped big time were Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Amelia Bloomer. I believe Amelia Bloomer also popularized women's right to wear pants.
Many people participated, and the people who "led" is an opinion. Anyway, three people who helped big time were Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Amelia Bloomer. I believe Amelia Bloomer also popularized women's right to wear pants.
Susan B. Anthony
Women's suffrage has been achieved at various times in different countries. The modern movement for women's suffrage originated in France in the 1780s and 1790s, where Antoine Condorcet and Olympe de Gouges advocated women's suffrage in national elections.

Susan B. Anthony became motivated to start reform in favor of women's rights as a result of experiencing gender discrimination as early as grade school when a teacher refused to show her how to do long division, something readily taught to males.

Women in the Progressive Era worked for economic and political equality and for social reforms, such as the right to control their earnings and to own property. They came to realize that politicians were unwilling to listen to them, so they needed win the right to vote in order to achieve the reforms they wanted.

Yes & No New Zealand was the first to give women the right to vote in 1893. The colony of South Australia enacted legislation giving women the vote in 1894. Places with similar status which granted women the vote include Wyoming Territory (1869). Other possible contenders for first "country" to grant females the right to vote ( called suffrage ) include the Corsican Republic, the Isle of Man (1881), the Pitcairn Islands, Franceville, and Tavolara, but some of these had brief existences as independent states and others were not clearly independent.

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Most women did not try to stop suffrage, they fought for suffrage in the 1920s. However there were some that tried to stop it with marches and petitions. The term suffrage means that they got the vote which is where confusion arises. This is because the word is similar to suffer in spelling which is why I think you are confused. Getting people to sign petitions against women's suffrage is often used as a joke as well to show that people do not understand politics or language as well as they should.

* In 1776 Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, asking him to "remember the ladies" in the new code of laws. Adams replies the men will fight the "despotism of the petticoat." 1777 Women lose the right to vote in New York. 1780 Women lose the right to vote in Massachusetts. 1784 Women lose the right to vote in New Hampshire. 1787 US Constitutional Convention places voting qualifications in the hands of the states. Women in all states except New Jersey lose the right to vote. 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft publishes Vindication of the Rights of Women in England. 1807 Women lose the right to vote in New Jersey, the last state to revoke the right. Women Join the Abolitionist Movement 1830s Formation of the female anti-slavery associations. 1836 Angelina Grimke appeals to Southern women to speak out against slavery. 1837 The "Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Massachusetts to the Congregational Churches Under Their Care" is promulgated against women speaking in public against slavery, it is mainly directed against the Grimke sisters. 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other women barred from participating on account of their sex. Women Begin to Organize For Their Own Rights 1848 First Women's Rights convention in Seneca Fall, New York. Equal suffrage proposed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton After debate of so radical a notion, it is adopted. 1850 Women's rights convention held in April in Salem, Ohio. First national women's rights convention held in October in Worcester, Massachusetts. 1850-1861 Annual Women's Rights conventions held. The last, in 1861, in Albany, New York lobbies for a liberalized divorce bill. Horace Greely opposes the bill, which loses. 1861-1865 Civil War. Over the objections of Susan B. Anthony, women put aside suffrage activities to help the war effort. 1867 Fourteenth amendment passes Congress, defining citizens as "male;" this is the first use of the word male in the Constitution. Kansas campaign for black and woman suffrage: both lose. Susan B. Anthony forms Equal Rights Association, working for universal suffrage. Suffrage Movement Divides Over Black vs. Woman Suffrage 1868 Fourteenth amendment ratified. Fifteenth amendment passes Congress, giving the vote to black men. Women petition to be included but are turned down. Formation of New England Woman Suffrage Association. In New Jersey, 172 women attempt to vote; their ballots are ignored. 1869 Frederick Douglass and others back down from woman suffrage to concentrate on fight for black male suffrage. National Woman Suffrage Association formed in May with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president. American Woman Suffrage Association formed in November with Henry Ward Beecher as president. In England, John Stuart Mill, economist and husband of suffragist Harriet Taylor, publishes On the Subjugation of Women. Wyoming territory grants first woman suffrage since 1807. Civil Disobedience Is Tried 1870 Fifteenth Amendment ratified. The Grimke sisters, now quite aged, and 42 other women attempt to vote in Massachusetts, their ballots are cast but ignored. Utah territory grants woman suffrage. 1871 The Anti-Suffrage Society is formed. 1872 Susan B. Anthony and supporters arrested for voting. Anthony's sisters and 11 other women held for $500 bail. Anthony herself is held for $1000 bail. 1873 Denied a trial by jury, Anthony loses her case in June and is fined $100 plus costs. Suffrage demonstration at the Centennial of the Boston Tea Party. 1874 Protest at a commemoration of the Battle of Lexington. In Myner v. Happerstett the US Supreme Court decides that being a citizen does not guarantee suffrage. Women's Christian Temperance Union formed. 1876 On July 4, in Philadelphia, Susan B. Anthony reads The Declaration for the Rights of Women from a podium in front of the Liberty Bell. The crowd cheers. Later, the suffragists meet in the historic First Unitarian Church. 1878 Woman suffrage amendment first introduced in US Congress. 1880 Lucretia Mott, born in 1793, dies. 1882 The House and Senate appoint committees on woman suffrage, both report favorably. 1884 Belva Lockwood runs for president. The US House of Representatives debates woman suffrage. 1886 Women protest being excluded from the dedication ceremonies for the Statue of Liberty. Suffrage amendment reaches the US Senate floor, it is defeated two to one. 1887 Utah women lose right to vote. 1890 The NWSA and the AWSA merge to form NAWSA. The focus turns to working at the state level. Campaign loses in South Dakota. 1893 Matilda Joslyn Gage publishes Woman, Church and State. After a vigorous campaign led by Carrie Chapman Catt, Colorado men vote for woman suffrage. 1894 Despite 600,000 signatures, a petition for woman suffrage is ignored in New York. Lucy Stone, born in 1818, dies. 1895 Elizabeth Cady Stanton publishes The Woman's Bible. Utah women regain suffrage. 1896 Idaho grants woman suffrage. Suffrage Activism Enters the 20th Century 1900 Carrie Chapman Catt takes over the reins of the NASWA. 1902 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born in 1815, dies. 1906 Susan Brownell Anthony, born in 1820, dies. 1907 Harriet Stanton Blatch, Elizabeth's daughter, forms the Equality League of Self Supporting Women which becomes the Women's Political Union in 1910. She introduces the English suffragists' tactics of parades, street speakers, and pickets. 1910 Washington (state) grants woman suffrage. 1911 California grants woman suffrage. In New York City, 3,000 march for suffrage. 1912 Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive Party includes woman suffrage in their platform. Oregon, Arizona, and Kansas grant woman suffrage. 1913 Women's Suffrage parade on the eve of Wilson's inauguration is attacked by a mob. Hundreds of women are injured, no arrests are made. Alaskan Territory grants suffrage. Illinois grants municipal and presidential but not state suffrage to women. 1916 Alice Paul and others break away from the NASWA and form the National Women's Party. 1917 Beginning in January, NWP posts silent "Sentinels of Liberty" at the White House. In June, the arrests begin. Nearly 500 women are arrested, 168 women serve jail time, some are brutalized by their jailers. North Dakota, Indiana, Nebraska, and Michigan grant presidential suffrage; Arkansas grants primary suffrage. New York, South Dakota, and Oklahoma state constitutions grant suffrage. 1918 The jailed suffragists released from prison. Appellate court rules all the arrests were illegal. President Wilson declares support for suffrage. Suffrage Amendment passes US House with exactly a two-thirds vote but loses by two votes in the Senate. 1919 In January, the NWP lights and guards a "Watchfire for Freedom." It is maintained until the Suffrage Amendment passes US Senate on June 4. The battle for ratification by at least 36 states begins. 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment, called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, is ratified by Tennessee on August 18. It becomes law on August 26.

One of the first and hallmark documents codifying the equal rights of women was the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The 19th Amendment conferred upon women the right to suffrage - voting. A proposed "Equal Rights Amendment," has been written to further clarify and make concrete gender based protections before the law.

Well, in the book "RIDING FREEDOM" shows that a young girl from an orphanage escapes and disguises herself as a man and secretly votes because everyone thinks she is a man. (author: Pam Munoz). The girl's name is Charlotte Parkhurst.

This is a complicated question. Women's lives could vary significantly depending on their social class, the time period, and the region where they lived. The short answer is that most women did not rebel, in the way a 21st century woman might, because there was no social support for it, because individualism was not deemed a desirably personality characteristic, and because the punishment could be severe--even death.

Instead of "rebelling," a woman might work to gain personal autonomy--usually though, she had to be a widow with a lot of money, be lucky enough to marry a cooperative and loving husband, become an abbess, or have a personality that motivated others to go along with her will. These factors all depended on an individual woman's specific circumstances.

In some regions, such as Scotland, women traditionally had more autonomy and this persisted by custom even where the law did not necessarily recognize it.

Some women, such as Margery Kemp and Julian of Norwich, were mystics who devoted themselves to religion, but did not become nuns. Margery Kemp was already a wife and mother when she began having mystical visions; she decided to live a celibate life, but remained a laywoman.

Abbesses of wealthy abbeys could become extremely influential, but placement in important abbeys was limited to daughters of rich and powerful families. For many years such a woman would be one of many nuns, living a life of obedience. It would take many years, and great ambition and skill, to rise to the rank of abbess.

A person's character and accomplishments might earn her a lot of status and even control over her life, but this could only be gained over time. There are many examples of fascinating and powerful medieval women, but each one is unique.

Emmeline Pankhurst

The 19th Amendment gave women suffrage, or, the legal right to vote.

A women named Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony started a program called the " National Woman Suffrage Association ". They fought for a very long time until finally on August 26th of the year 1920, the 19th amendment was signed by Bainbridge Colby, stating that women had the right to vote. Bainbridge Colby was the Seretary of State.

Because women are importantly equal as man.

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There were many reasons with no one specific explanation for women getting the right to vote in Wyoming and other western states.

Wyoming and other western states needed more people. By giving women the right to vote, Wyoming hoped to attract women from the eastern states.

Granting women the right to vote also brought publicity to Wyoming.

Politics was also a part. African American men were also being given the right to vote at the same time and there were concerns about counteracting their votes.

Plus, people in Wyoming believed that women should be given the right to vote and that voting (suffrage) is a basic right of citizenship.

The suffragetes a group of womens rights, fought for the for the right for women to vote.The move for women to have the vote had really started in 1897 when Millicent Fawcett founded the National Union of Women's Suffrage. "Suffrage" means the right to vote and that is what women wanted - hence its inclusion in Fawcett's title.

the two main people who fought for Women's Rights were Susan B. Anthony and Abigail Adams

Although New Jersey allowed some women to vote between 1790 and 1807 (those with property), Wyoming was the first state to grant the general right to vote, through an act of the territorial legislature in 1869 that carried into statehood in 1890. The state of Colorado approved women's right to vote in 1893.

If you are asking about the United States, women received the right to vote in federal elections in 1920. But long before that, some states gave women the right to vote for governor, state senators, mayors, etc. One of the first places to grant women voting rights was the territory of Wyoming, in 1869. Women got the right to vote in several other western states, including Colorado in 1893, and Idaho in 1896.

`the purpose of the seneca falls convention is the the participants at the seneca falls convention approved all parts of the declaration unanimously-including several revolutions to encourage the women to participate in all public issues on an equal basis with men

In 1919, women over the age of 30 got the vote. Within the next 10 years it was lowered to 21. By the 1970's, it was lowered to 18 for both genders.

Wyoming was the first territorial government to grant women's suffrage in 1869 to all females age 21 and up.

The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was passed in 1920:

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

The purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention was to use the Declaration of Independence to claim Womens Rights
To help the subject of women's rights and expand the movement for more freedom.

When Governor Glasgow signed the Electoral Bill on 19 September 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing nation in the world where women had won the right to vote. The Bill was the outcome of years of meetings in towns and cities across the country, with women often travelling considerable distances to hear lectures and speeches, pass resolutions and sign petitions. A number of petitions were presented to both Houses of Parliament from the early 1880s till 1893. Only two of these historically important documents are known to have survived and both are preserved at Archives New Zealand. The first of these was the unsuccessful 1892 women's franchise petition containing approximately 20,000 signatures. This was the culmination of many years work by the Women's Christian Temperance Movement and prominent suffragist, Kate Sheppard. Source: http://www.archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/permanentexhibitions/suffrage.php accessed in Melbourne Australia 18 April 2007 In 1869, Wyoming Territory became the first area of the United States to grant women's suffrage.