Women’s Suffrage Movement

Definition

The Women's Suffrage Movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States which culminated in 1920 with the passage of Nineteenth Amendment.

Related terms

Seneca Falls Convention (1848): The first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls New York; it marked beginning of women's suffrage movement in US.

Nineteenth Amendment (1920): An amendment to U.S. Constitution that granted women the right to vote.

Susan B. Anthony: A prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into United States.