USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

WOMENS SUFFRAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Women’s suffrage means women wanted the right to ____
A
be free
B
vote
C
go to work
D
free speech
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Women’s suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vote, increasing the number of those parties’ potential constituencies.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is the 19th Amendment? The 19th Amendment makes it illegal to deny the right to vote to any citizen based on their sex, which effectively granted women the right to vote. It was first introduced to Congress in 1878 and was finally certified 42 years later in 1920.

Detailed explanation-3: -The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once.

Detailed explanation-4: -The word suffrage comes from the Latin word suffragium, meaning the right to vote. Women in the United States had fought for suffrage since the time of Andrew Jackson’s presidency in the 1820s. Before the Civil War, women were allowed limited voting in a few states.

Detailed explanation-5: -The term ‘suffrage’ means right to vote. All over Europe and USA, women led the suffrage movement demanding the right to vote.

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