The women’s suffrage movement made the question of women’s voting rights into an important political issue in the 19th century. The struggle was particularly intense in Great Britain and in the United States, but those countries were not the first to grant women the right to vote, at ...
When did women's suffrage begin? For years, the drive for women's suffrage was presented mainly as the story of middle-class white women and iconic national leaders like Anthony and Stanton. That story began with the Seneca Falls Convention in upstate New York in 1848 and ended with the tr...
In 1848 men and women alike, gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the future of women in the United States. The main issue had to do with suffrage, which is the right to vote. Women wanted to work towards change in this country and they realized the only way for reform was...