The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. 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.
The Women’s Suffrage started in 1848. The Women’s Suffrage was a very rough time and took a long time to end. The very first gathering that was dedicated to the Women’s rights in the United States was held on July 19th-20th, 1848. The Women’s Suffrage movement lasted a couple of decades long; they had fought very hard to win the right to let Women vote in the United States. It took about 100 years for them to get that right. Once the movement had begun it was during the 1820s and the 1830s that most states had decided that they would increase the franchise to all the white men, no matter how much money they already had. In 1848, there were a group of abolitionist activists, it was mainly women and some men gathered at the Seneca Falls, New York to discuss Women’s rights. They had got invited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Most of the people at the Seneca Falls convention agreed that the American Women were also independent individuals who deserved their own political identities just like anyone else did. They even said that all men and women are created equal. During the 1850s there was some steam about the Women’s rights but they lost the momentum when the civil war began. It was the year of 1869, they ended up forming a group called the National Women Suffrage Association and they had begun to fight for the Universal Suffrage amendment to the U.S Constitution.
After all that fight it was on August 26th, 1920, the 19th amendment was finally confirmed, saying that All American women, are just like men and deserve all rights and responsibilities of citizenship just like they do. It was officially passed by congress June 4, 1919 and ratified on August 18, 1920 when the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. This took nearly 70 years to happen.
I think that Women should have always had the right to vote, I feel like men and women should have always been treated the same it wasn’t fair, men and women are created equal and should be treated equal. There is not a race better than another, all races are the same on the inside as they are on the out.
