Women’s+Suffrage+Movement

Kierstyn lawver, Bekah Kroeze The woman's suffrage movement in the United States achieved its goal of winning full voting rights for woman when the nineteenth amendment was ratified in 1920.  The woman's rights movement officially began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848.During the convention they protested, wrote letters, and organized marches to help unite woman. Also at the convention they adopted a "Declaration of Principles" and they used these in comparison to the declaration of independence and stated that everybody is free. In the Declaration of Principles it stated that woman should have the right to preach to educate, to teach and to earn a living. Susan B. Anthony once said, "No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex." Two woman, Lucrecia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the convention. When world war one I started over two million woman came together to help the war effort. This was a major push for them. Finally in August of 1920, President Woodrow Wilson ratified the 19th amendment which gave woman the right to vote.