The Women's Suffrage Movement In The United States

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For decades’ historians have argued about whether origins matter to a movement. Locating the beginning of the U.S. woman suffrage movement in the 1848 woman's rights convention held in Seneca Falls. People nowadays sometimes wonder what actions took place that started the feminism movement. So much took place over the years and people never talk how the women's suffrage movement started, why the movement started, women's suffrage movement in the south and the success from the movement. The women's suffrage movement started in the year 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. The women's suffrage movement started because women in the Progressive era wanted to educate the public about the validity of women suffrage. In the year 1848 the women's …show more content…
Southern suffragists were bound by a much stricter social system than their Northern counterparts and thus were met with stronger resistance than in other states. In Mississippi, a state where slaves made up a majority of the population and almost the entire population lived in rural areas, it is unsurprising that these repressive social systems were particularly powerful. The Mississippi government denied women the right to vote until forced to do so by the federal government in 1920. Perhaps most interesting because of their failure to spawn a state amendment or ratify the federal amendment, indeed only ratifying the19Amendment in 1984, women’s suffragists in Mississippi were nonetheless active. In the south the women’s suffrage movement had to work harder because of slavery and women’s not being treated fair as the males were being treated. Mississippi was one of the slave states and was one of the first states in the south that the women’s suffragists began to work in. Women’s suffragists had a lot on their plate when they took their movement to the south, but that did not stop them from the goal they had set and in 1984 that’s when things took a change for the better. Women in the south could not really do anything nothing was equal to what men could do. According to Gerdna Lerner, As the women become …show more content…
Women’s suffrage movement was a success in a lot of areas and helped passes laws that could help women. Women’s suffrage movement helped the 19th Amendment which granted women the right to vote, working conditions and wages were better for women, women had more job opportunities, women could be in politics, birth control and better lives for women’s. Those were a few things that the women’s suffrage movement helped and make lives of women become