USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -It commemorates three founders of America’s women’s suffrage movement: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -By the early years of the 20th century, women had won the right to vote in national elections in New Zealand (1893), Australia (1902), Finland (1906), and Norway (1913). In Sweden and the United States they had voting rights in some local elections.

Detailed explanation-5: -It stimulated important policy changes but left many reform goals unachieved. It helped women, above all white women, find new footings in government agencies, political parties, and elected offices-and, in time, even run for president-and yet left most outside the halls of power.