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Explaining Women's Suffrage
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Main Events
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Accomplishments
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What it Means Today
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Women's suffrage was a
fight to give women the right
to vote in elections (such as
for president) as well as run
for elected office. In the
early days of our country,
only white men were able to do
both of these things. Women
and men who fought for women's rights felt that everyone should be treated equal.
The women's suffrage movement started in the year 1840 and finished in 1920. Some of the most important events were;
1848: The first women's rights convention is held which helps to create a set of goals for the women to accomplish for their movement to be successful.
1868: Congress defines voters and citizens as men only.
1872: Women around the country are arrested for trying to vote in the presidential election.
1878: The Woman Suffrage Amendment is introduced in Congress.
1887: The first vote on women's suffrage is taken in the senate and is defeated.
1890: Wyoming becomes the first state to grant women rights.
1920: American women finally win full voting rights through the passage of the nineteenth amendment to the constitution.
At the end of the women's suffrage movement, women won the right to vote.
By voting, women became an essential part of the United States.
While women's suffrage gave women the right to vote, it could not make all rights equal.
Today, there are still many privelleges that men have over women.
Women and men both continue to strive for all kinds of equality around the country.
