HIST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: National American Woman Suffrage Association, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention
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In january 1878, a constitutional amendment was formally introduced in the. Senate by republican senator aaron a. sargent of california to give women the vote. The bill languished in committee until it finally came up to a vote in 1887, and was defeated. It was not until 1914 that the senate considered and again rejected another constitutional amendment for women"s rights. Although many of her fellow suffragists were pacifists against the war, catt made the controversial decision to back up the war and thus portray the women"s suffrage movement as patriotic. The campaign was a success; president woodrow wilson declared his support for women"s franchise in his state of the union address in 1918. On august 18, 1920, congress passed the nineteenth amendment, which guaranteed the right to vote to all us people regardless of sex. The nineteenth amendment was an important victory and a turning point for the women"s rights movement.
