Women'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.

2009年10月29日 · The 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...

2025年1月21日 · Women's suffrage: United States Members of the women's suffrage movement in Philadelphia, 1917. From the founding of the United States, women were almost universally excluded from voting. Only when women began to chafe at this restriction, however, was their exclusion made explicit.

2022年2月8日 · Beginning 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 of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.

2021年6月2日 · Beginning 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 …

Women's Suffrage. What strategies did women use to win a constitutional right to vote? In July 1848, powerful calls for women’s suffrage were made from a convention in Seneca Falls, New York. This convention kicked off a sustained campaign, led by women, to secure voting rights.

List of important facts regarding women’s suffrage in the United States. Women were denied voting rights throughout most of history. The struggle for women’s suffrage in the United States began in the 19th century and ultimately succeeded during the early 20th century.

2021年2月22日 · This right—known as women’s suffrage—was ratified on August 18, 1920: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

The states’ ratification of amendments that aimed to protect African-Americans’ civil rights brought new attention to issues of women’s rights and suffrage. 4 Footnote Sandra Day O’Connor, The History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 49 Vand. L. Rev. 657, 660–61 (1996).

As the United States entered World War I in April 1917 to fight for democracy abroad, it became more difficult for opponents of women’s suffrage to argue that women should be denied a fundamental democratic right at home. 10 Footnote Id. at 280.