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Now women, like men, had the same rights and responsibilities of citizenship

Women Suffrage

About a Decade fighting for the right to vote. Activists and reformers took a 100 years to win this this right.on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified.

Beginnings

THe fight for women's suffreage started decades before the civil war.Women’s suffrage, also called woman suffrage, the right of women by law to vote in national or local elections.AS women became involved in many of the movements of the time: temperance leagues, religious movements, anti-slavery organizations and so forth; they started understanding that being woman and citizen of the United States was more than just being a pious mother and wife.

In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott invited abolitionist activists to a meeting to discuss the problem of women's rights.Most agreed that women deserve their own political identity.Declaration of Sentiments: "all men and women are created equal... with inalienable rights..."

Seneca Falls convention

Women were actively fighting for the right to vote, but their efforts lost strength when the Civil War started. After the war and when the 14th and the 15th amendments were ratified, citizens were considered male, and African Americans were given the right to vote. Women were still not considered as voters. In 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony form the National Women Suffrage Association. They fought for a universal suffrage amendment to the U.S. constitution.Then the American Women Suffrage Association was formed to fight on a State-by-State basis.

Civil War and Civil Rights

In 1890 both groups emerged to become the National American Women Suffrage Association, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first president of the association.Now, instead of saying that women deserved the right to vote because they were equal to men, they now supported that they have a right to vote because women are different.They argued to create a more moral maternal commonwealth.

The Progressive Campaign

Some States in the west approve women's right to vote:Idaho and Utah at the end of the 19th century.Southern and Eastern States still resisted.In 1916, NAWSA, led by Carrie Chapman Catt as president, moved suffrage organizations around the country to support the cause.A splinter group called National Women's Party, founded by Alice Paul, did hunger strikes, White House protests, and other radical tactics to get the public's attention.

Fighting Harder

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During WWI the campaings were slowed, but the war still helped women advance their arguments: women's work during the war proved they were as patriotic and as deserving as men of the right to vote.on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Consitution was ratified. on November 2nd that year, 8 million women all across America voted for the first time.

World War I

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The first countries where women won the right to vote were New Zealand (1893), Australia (1902), Finland (1906), and Norway (1913). By that time Sweden and the United States had voting rights in some local elections.During and after WWI the movement speeded up. Between 1914-1939, women acquired voting rights in 28 other countries.

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Around the World

In Great Britain woman suffrage was first advocated by Mary Wollstonecraft in her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and was demanded by the Chartist movement of the 1840s. The first woman suffrage committee was formed in Manchester in 1865, and in 1867, John Stuart Mill and his wife Harriet presented to Parliament this society’s petition, which demanded the vote for women and contained about 1,550 signatures.

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In Britain

The Reform Bill of 1867 contained no provision for woman suffrage, but meanwhile woman suffrage societies were forming in most of the major cities of Britain.In the 1870s these organizations submitted to Parliament petitions demanding the franchise for women and containing a total of almost three million signatures.

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In Britain

In Britain

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And They Did It!