USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the legal right to vote, was signed into law. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, women and men of all backgrounds and ethnicities aided in the fight for universal suffrage.

Detailed explanation-2: -What did the women’s suffrage movement fight for? The women’s suffrage movement fought for the right of women by law to vote in national or local elections.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Women’s suffrage movement in India fought for Indian women’s right to political enfranchisement in Colonial India under British rule. Beyond suffrage, the movement was fighting for women’s right to stand for and hold office during the colonial era.

Detailed explanation-4: -Their broad goals included equal access to education and employment, equality within marriage, and a married woman’s right to her own property and wages, custody over her children and control over her own body.