Woman Suffrage In The United States
Women's suffrage in the United States was achieved gradually, at state and local levels during the late 19th century and early 20th century.On June 1848, the Liberty Party, composed entirely of men, made women's suffrage a key point in their presidential campaign. The next month, The Seneca Falls Convention issued the first formal demand written by US women for suffrage. During the 1850s the National Woman's Rights Conventions and Lucy Stone organized women's suffrage petitions campaigns in several states. In 1865 the National Woman's Rights Committee issued a petition asking Congress to amend the United States Constitution to prohibit states from disenfranchising citizens "on the ground of
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sex." Disagreement among movement leaders over whether to support ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave the vote to black men but not to women, resulted in the formation of two rival organizations: The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and theAmerican Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), founded by Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe. In 1889 the groups merged into the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Women's contributions in the First World War (1917–18) gave them the final push for a final victory.