USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Most suffrage histories begin in 1848, the year Elizabeth Cady Stanton convened a women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. There, she unfurled a Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, seeking religious, educational and property rights for women – and the right to vote.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first state to grant women the right to vote had been Wyoming, in 1869, followed by Utah in 1870, Colorado in 1893, Idaho in 1896, Washington in 1910, California in 1911, Oregon and Arizona in 1912, Montana in 1914, North Dakota, New York, and Rhode Island in 1917, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Michigan in 1918.

Detailed explanation-3: -The fight for the right to vote continued through an international suffrage movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.It was finally in 1946 that women in France won the right to vote.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1848, Mott and Stanton hosted the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women’s rights convention in the United States. The convention published a Declaration of Sentiments, based on the Declaration of Independence, that called for voting rights for women and other reforms.