Women's Suffrage

The fight for women’s suffrage, or voting, went on for about seventy years. The fight first officially started in 1848 with the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. This was the start of a long, complicated battle.
The woman’s rights issue was actually first motivated by another cause, anti-slavery. There were meetings that women weren’t allowed to vote in. At the World’s Anti-slavery Convention, women weren’t allowed in. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, later suffrage leaders, were two of the women who were excluded admittance.

It was 1848, and Stanton and Mott were starting their journey on the road to suffrage with the first women’s rights convention. The women at the convention made up a list of complaints to show that for years men have been dominant over women. This became the first public pro...