2. Women
suffrage is important because it was
a time where women wanted the right to
vote
3.
On Election Day in 1920, millions of American
women exercised their right to vote for the first
time. It took activists and reformers nearly 100
years to win that right, and the campaign was
not easy: Disagreements over strategy
threatened to cripple the movement more than
once.
on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the
Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising
all American women and declaring for the first
time that they, like men, deserve all the rights
and responsibilities of citizenship.
4.
After the SENECA FALLS CONVENTION of 1848
demanded WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE for the first time,
America became distracted by the coming Civil
War. The issue of the vote resurfaced during
Reconstruction.
The FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT to the Constitution
proposed granting the right to vote to African
American males. Many female suffragists at the
time were outraged. They simply could not believe
that those who suffered 350 years of bondage
would be enfranchised before America's women.
5. The
demand for the enfranchisement
of American women was first
seriously formulated at the Seneca
Falls Convention (1848).
On August 26, 1920, the 19th
Amendment granted the ballot to
American women.
6. a
rift developed among feminists over
the proposed 15th Amendment, which
gave the vote to black men. Susan B.
Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and
others refused to endorse the
amendment because it did not give
women the ballot.
7.
The first National Women's Rights Convention takes
place in Worcester mass, attracting more than 1,000
participants. National conventions are held yearly
(except for 1857) through 1860.
The federal woman suffrage amendment, originally
written by Susan B. Anthony and introduced
in Congress in 1878, is passed by the House of
Representatives and the Senate. It is then sent to
the states for ratification.
Aug. 26The 19th Amendment to the
Constitution, granting women the right to vote, is
signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge
Colby.
8.
The women suffrage movement started in the 19th
century. When the west of the united states was open
and divided into vast territories. The government
assigned a territorial governor to the territory.
A territory couldn't become a state until there was a
government there and a population of at least 60'000.
Well these places were empty, and back then women's
suffrage was up to the state. So while in a territorial
government state, the governor would allow women to
vote.
This drove women west to settle these regions, and of
course the men followed the women. With the influx of
migrates, these western territories could become
states. Women finally got the vote in 1920.
9. In
conclusion women suffrage was important
because they were fighting to get their
rights.
