Women's Sufferage

Women have a very active role in society these days. However, it hasn’t always been that easy. It took many women to get our rights for today. The American women’s suffrage movement took more than eighty years to accomplish its goal of gaining women’s right to vote, which required the passage of a constitutional amendment. This is how we got the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution. An abolitionist by the name of …

…a higher education). The second day of the convention was for voting on the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. All the points were accepted, except for the article calling for women’s suffrage. A debate raged over whether the convention should actually call for the vote of women. Many of the people felt the demand was too radical. They worried a major public outcry that would make the new women’s rights movement look ridiculous.