Women and their right to vote?

Question

i need to know the history of when women were given the right to vote. i already have a lot of information of need just a bit more to back it up. i need to know how the USA changed when women were given the rights and when it happened. anything helps.

thanks!! :D

Answer 1

New Zealand was the first country that allowed women to vote. Four years before that, men were allowed to vote. Prior to that, only (male and female) land owners were allowed to vote. It shows that women were allowed to vote before the majority of men but that doesn't suit the gender feminists so it is conveniently ignored

Answer 2

Female Suffrage in the States:

The effort to obtain women's suffrage in the United States was a primary effort of those involved in the greater women's rights movement of the 19th century. Women's suffrage was permanently granted in 1920 with the passage of the ''Nineteenth Amendment'' to the United States Constitution.

Making a federal case of suffrage: the Nineteenth Amendment

On January 12, 1915, a suffrage bill was brought before the House of Representatives but was lost by a vote of 174 to 204. Again a bill was brought before the House, on January 10, 1918. On the evening before President Wilson made a strong and widely published appeal to the House to pass the bill. It was passed with one more vote than was needed to make the necessary two-thirds majority. The vote was then carried into the Senate. Again President Wilson made an appeal, and on September 30, 1918, the question was put to the vote, but two votes were lacking to make the two-thirds majority. On February 10, 1919, it was again voted upon, and then it was lost by only one vote.

There was considerable anxiety among politicians of both parties to have the amendment passed and made effective before the general elections of 1920, so the President called a special session of Congress, and a bill, introducing the amendment, was brought before the House again. On May 21, 1919, it was passed, 42 votes more than necessary being obtained. On June 4, 1919, it was brought before the Senate, and after a long discussion it was passed, with 56 ayes and 25 nays. It only remained that the necessary number of states should ratify the action of Congress. Within a few days Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, their legislatures being then in session, passed the ratifications. Other states then followed their examples, and Tennessee was the last of the needed 36 states to ratify, in the summer of 1920. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was an accomplished fact, and the Presidential election of November 1920, was therefore the first occasion on which women in all states were allowed to exercise their right of suffrage.

Answer 3

The organised women's movement began in the USA in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.  

Some western states gave women the right to vote before the end of the 19th century, starting with Wyoming in 1869.  Western states hoped to attract women settlers, and they thought giving them the vote would make them more appealing to women.  In the early 1900s, under the leadership of Carrie Chapman Catt, massive suffragette campaigns, parades etc were organised.  California gave wome the vote in 1911.

The 19th amendment finally gave all women the vote when it was passed in 1920.  One survivor of the Seneca Falls Convention, Charlotte Woodward, was still alive, and was able to cast her vote in November 1920.

The immediate result was that the women's movement dwindled away.  The National American Woman Suffrage Association was transformed into the League of Women Voters, and its membership plunged to one-tenth of what it was.  

Giving women the vote did not make much difference to the result of elections, because most women appeared to vote the way their husbands, brothers and fathers did - not necessarily because they felt obliged to follow the men's lead, but because they shared the same loyalties to class, ethnic group, and region.

Answer 4

19th Ammendment!