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Definition: women's suffrage from Collins English Dictionary

n

1 the right of women to vote See also suffragette

woman suffrage

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
the right of women to vote. Throughout the latter part of the 19th cent. the issue of women's voting rights was an important phase of feminism . It was first seriously proposed in the United States at Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19, 1848, in a general declaration of the rights of women prepared by Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Lucretia Mott , and several others. The early leaders of the movement in the United States—Susan B. Anthony , Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone , Abby Kelley Foster , Angelina Grimké , Sarah Grimké , and others—were usually also advocates of temperance and of the abolition of slavery. When, however, after the close of the Civil War, the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) gave the franchise to newly emancipated African-American men but not to the women who had helped win it for them, the suffragists for the most part confined their efforts to the struggle for the vote. The National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was…
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From The Great American History Fact-Finder
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Women's right to vote. The U.S. Constitution of 1787 did not specify who could or could not vote, leaving the matter to the states, which initially granted voting rights only to landowning white men. Although property qualifications were abolished during the 1820s and 1830s, women were still…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable
The campaign for the vote for women began in Ireland with the establishment of the Dublin Women's Suffrage Society in 1875, which developed into the Irishwomen's Suffrage and Local Government Association. Under the reforming Local Government Act of 1898 women were granted the vote in local…
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From The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History
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The movement for woman suffrage is at once the historical foundation of American feminism and, along with the labor movement and the movement for black political and civil rights, one of the formative processes in the history of American democracy. Begun in the wake of Jacksonian franchise…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
the right of women to vote. Throughout the latter part of the 19th cent. the issue of women's voting rights was an important phase of feminism . It was first seriously proposed in the United States at Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19, 1848, in a general declaration of the rights of women prepared by…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Right of women by law to vote in national and local elections. Women’s voting rights became an issue in the 19th century, especially in Britain and the U.S. In the U.S. the woman suffrage movement arose from the antislavery movement ( see abolitionism ) and from the advocacy of figures such as…
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Full text Article AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

From The Reader's Companion to American History
This group resulted from the divisions in the women's rights movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It grew out of the New England Woman Suffrage Association, formed in 1868 to focus exclusively on obtaining the franchise. It was opposed to the policies of Elizabeth Cady…
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Full text Article National Woman Suffrage Association

From From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women
Founded in 1869 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) resulted from a conflict between the abolitionist and women's rights movements over the Fifteenth Amendment. Conflicts had first emerged over the Fourteenth Amendment's inclusion of the…
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From From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women
Founded in 1869, the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) developed out of a division between two factions in the women's rights movement and in response to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony's new organization, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), also founded in that…
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Full text Article NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

From The Reader's Companion to American History
The National Woman Suffrage Association ( nwsa ) was founded in May 1869 by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other women exasperated at the collapse of an Equal Rights Association convention they attended in New York City. That convention split when former abolitionists, such as…
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From Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics
The American Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1869 by the New England wing of suffragists and abolitionists in reaction to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony's departure from the American Equal Rights Association . Stanton and Anthony believed that women were being ignored in the…
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