Women Vote

During the period of Women Suffrage women’s weren't allowed to vote. After several years of trying to win this battle votes for women were finally proposed in the United States in July, 1848. This happen at the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention organized by two important women’s who took part of this Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. In 1920, when women finally won the vote throughout the nation, Charlotte Woodward was the only participant alive who still attended in the 1848 Convention able to vote. She was nineteen year old at the time when she first attended that Convention. Though she was apparently too ill to actually cast a ballot.

During the World War I women took up jobs in factories to support the war, as well as taking more active roles in the war. After the war the National American Woman Suffrage Association, headed by Carrie Chapman Catt, took more opportunities to remind the President, and the Congress, that women's war work should be rewarded with recognition of their political equality. Wilson responded by beginning to support woman suffrage. A couple of battles for woman suffrage were won state-by-state by the early 20th century.  Thousands of woman’s took part in this. In August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment of the US Constitution became law, and women could vote in the fall elections, including in the Presidential election.

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