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What was it called when women fought for the right to vote?
The women’s suffrage movement
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States.
What group fought for the women’s vote?
Suffragette
| A 1910 poster by Alfred Pearce for the WSPU showing a suffragette being force-fed | |
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| First suffragettes | Women’s Social and Political Union |
| Founder | Emmeline Pankhurst (WSPU) |
| Later groups | Women’s Freedom League (founded 1907) East London Federation of Suffragettes (founded 1914) |
| Purpose | Votes for women |
Who was involved in the fight for women’s suffrage?
Wagner, who is behind books such as Women’s Suffrage Anthology and Sisters in Spirit, has for almost 30 years studied the Haudenosaunee (or the Iroquois) influence on the early feminist movements. Learn more in this article from The Independent. Who got the right to vote when?
What was the history of the women’s rights movement?
The Women’s Rights Movement, 1848–1920. Ultimately, the suffrage movement provided political training for some of the early women pioneers in Congress, but its internal divisions foreshadowed the persistent disagreements among women in Congress and among women’s rights activists after the passage of the 19th Amendment.
Why did Susan B Anthony split the women’s rights movement?
Conflict over how to win the vote in light of Amendments Fourteen and Fifteen split the women’s rights movement. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the more radical National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) that tried to win suffrage at the Constitutional level.
What did Lucy Stone do for women’s suffrage?
Lucy Stone (1818 – October 18, 1893) A pioneer of the American women’s suffrage movement, Stone helped to found the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, and encouraged many others to follow in her footsteps. She spoke eloquently about the need for women’s suffrage at a time when few women spoke publically.