Women in Reform Movements

Women in the United States during the 19th century participated in a lot of reform movements to improve education, to initiate prison reform, to ban alcoholic drinks, and, during the pre-Civil War period, to free the slaves. A group of Women started Organization all about Women rights. Women's suffrage movement was the struggle to gain the same right to vote as men. Many Women who began to  participate in reform movements started to also find interest in politics.





http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm
http://www.42explore2.com/suffrage.htm