USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

WOMENS SUFFRAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What did the suffrage movement hope to achieve?
A
A woman’s right to divorce her husband
B
The right for women to work
C
Women’s voting rights
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The hope was that if enough states allowed women to vote in local elections, the federal government would have to make changes as well.

Detailed explanation-2: -The movement for voting rights to women came to be known as the suffrage movement. All over Europe and USA. women and the poor have had to fight for participation in the government. Women’s struggle to vote got strengthened during the first world war.

Detailed explanation-3: -Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution.

Detailed explanation-4: -Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change in the Constitution – guaranteeing women the right to vote.

Detailed explanation-5: -The women’s suffrage movement made the question of women’s voting rights into an important political issue in the 19th century. The struggle was particularly intense in Great Britain and in the United States, but those countries were not the first to grant women the right to vote, at least not on a national basis.

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