Women’s Suffrage

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Women’s suffrage
Although the struggle for women’s voting right took several years and faced disagreements by the leading groups that fought for it, they all saw ballot as their main aim of woman’s right. The movements began before the civil war. All white men had been the franchise by most states without considering their economic status in the society by most states during the early 1820s. Together with the rising number of reform movements in the country at that time that had women in various roles, women found the momentum for women’s suffrage.
These movements led to the formation of a National Woman Suffrage Association steered by Elizabeth Cady and Susan Anthony (Appleby et al. 458). They demanded voting rights for women rights for women through an amendment to the constitution. The same year 1869, Lucy Stone among others formed American Woman Suffrage Association which also demanded women be given the right to vote but through individual state amendments. The ideological differences among the groups to an extent slowed down the fight for women suffrage for some years.
Eventually, the friction faded, and the two groups merged in the year 1890 to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (Appleby et al. 458). They elected Elizabeth Cady as their first president. The same agenda of struggling for constitutional changes that would allow women to vote is the fabric reason that allowed for the formation of a single movement.

With the creation of NAWSA, the fight for voting rights f a woman became more intense. The struggle gained support from the middle-class white people who felt that enfranchising the white women would allow for immediate and long-lasting white supremacy. Fruits of the common idea for women suffrage paid off from 1910 when some western states started giving women the right to vote.

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Appleby, Joyce, Eileen Chang, and Neva Goodwin. Encyclopedia of women in American history. Routledge, 2015.