The Womens Rights Movement

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to own their own property.
However, seventy-two years later, the 19th Amendment, in 1920, gave women
the right to vote. It is now called the Anthony Amendment.

Women's Suffrage

The battle for Women's Suffrage began one afternoon, July 13, 1848
to be exact, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton was invited to have tea with a few
of her friends, one of them being Lucretia Mott. During their tea the
conversation turned to the situation of women, Elizabeth poured out her
discontent with the restrictions on women under America's new democracy.
The American Revolution had been fought just seventy years earlier to win
the patriots freedom from tyranny. But women had not gained equal rights
even though they had taken equally tremendous risks through those dangerous
years. Of course the new republic would benefit from having its women play
active roles throughout society. All of the ladies agreed with Elizabeth,
passionately; however, this was not the first group of ladies to have such
a conversation but they were the first to plan and c...