Women Suffrage Movement

The women suffrage movement was a movement that  fought for all women to have the right to vote. This assisted in the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 which gave citizens-this time including women-the right to vote. People that supported women's right to vote were known as "suffragists".  In early American, positions of power were only available to property owning men and only those men were entitled to vote.  Later the American Revolution led to a more broad idea of participationg in which female taxpayers still voted in only some areas but the vote did not expand to all. The movement focused on giving this right to all women. Those involved in the movement were women and those who were involved in organziations such as the National American Women Suffrage Association. The movement was very powerful and was successful in granting women suffrage.



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