HIST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: American Woman Suffrage Association, National American Woman Suffrage Association, National Woman Suffrage Association
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The women"s suffrage movement has its origins in the 1848 seneca falls. Convention, the first convention on women"s rights ever held in the usa. About three hundred activists, male and female, gathered to discuss women"s condition and develop strategies to achieve women"s social and political rights. Although women"s suffrage was a topic of debate at the convention, it was not the movement"s main goal at this early stage, and the convention"s resolution demanding women"s suffrage was the only resolution that was not passed unanimously. Susan b. anthony and elizabeth cady stanton founded the national woman. Suffrage association (nwsa) while the american woman suffrage association (awsa) was founded by lucy stone, julia ward howe and henry blackwell respectively. Those two rival groups were split over the fifteenth amendment, which guaranteed the right to vote for african american men. The awsa supported the fifteenth amendment, while the nwsa rejected the amendment because it did not include women"s suffrage.
