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Bookmark or Share- 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.
- Women’s suffrage - US History, 19th Amendment, Voting Rights - BritannicaThe movement for woman suffrage started in the early 19th century during the agitation against slavery. Women such as Lucretia Mott showed a keen interest in the antislavery movement and proved to be admirable public speakers.
- 19th Amendment ‑ Definition, Passage & Summary - HISTORYThe 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending almost a century of...
- Women's suffrage in the United States - WikipediaThe woman's suffrage movement, led in the nineteenth century by stalwart women such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, had its genesis in the abolitionist movement, but by the dawn of the twentieth century, Anthony's goal of universal suffrage was eclipsed by a near-universal racism in the United States.
- 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...
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