The Women's Suffrage Movement of the 20th Century

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The Women’s Suffrage Movement was a movement started by women with the goal of being able to vote. According to nwhm.org and History.com, the movement started in around 1848; however, it became very popular and gained more traction in the early 1900s. The movement was started at a women’s rights convention in Senca Falls, New York, and though that was not the first women’s rights convention, it was what people believed to have started the movement. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton, who would later start the Women’s Suffrage Movement, met Mott at a World Anti-Slavery Convention. Later on, Stanton was introduced to Susan B. Anthony, another popular suffragist and activist, and a couple years later, they established the Women’s Suffrage Movement. They as well as many other suffragists, as they were called, led and organized the movement. Some of these popular suffragists of the time included Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Ida B. Wells.

The suffragists did many things to protest for the rights of women, such as petitioning and rallying, as well as organizing parades and demonstrations (Tactics and Techniques of the National Womens Party Suffrage Campaign). They even created organizations, such as the National American Women Suffrage Association, or NAWSA, and the National Woman’s Party, or NWP. Slowly, all of this work began to pay off. According to History.com, in around 1910 Western states began to give women the right to vote. States like Idaho and Utah gave women the right to vote at the end of the 19^th century. Finally, on August 26, 1920, the 19^th amendment that gave women the right to vote was passed. The decades of work put in by people everywhere were paid off, and though there were still unfortunately women who would not be able to vote for a while, it was one-step closer in the right direction.

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