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Bookmark or Share- Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment | National ArchivesBeginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change in the Constitution – guaranteeing women the right to vote.
- Suffrage - WikipediaSuffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).
- Women’s Suffrage ‑ The U.S. Movement, Leaders & 19th ... - HISTORYThe 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 ...
- Women's suffrage in the United States - WikipediaWomen's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. [ 2 ]
- Women’s suffrage | Definition, History, Causes, Effects, Leaders ...Women’s suffrage is the right of women by law to vote in national or local elections. Women were excluded from voting in ancient Greece and republican Rome as well as in the few democracies that had emerged in Europe by the end of the 18th century.
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