Title:Women Suffrage Background Brief Description: Background information on how women recieved the right to vote.
Title: Title:Women Suffrage Background Brief Description: Background information on how women recieved the right to vote.
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 217 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Title:Women Suffrage Background Brief Description: Background information on how women recieved the right to vote.
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 217 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Woman Suffrage Background
Votes for women were first seriously proposed in the United States in July, 1848, at the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony. One woman who attended that convention was Charlotte Woodward. She was nineteen at the time. In 1920, when women finally won the vote throughout the nation, Charlotte Woodward was the only participant in the 1848 Convention who was still alive to cast her
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in the 1920s given them their right to vote. There are still many women who hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is certain that women will not quit for their given right to be equal as men. A dream come true for all women.