How Women Got the Vote

In the mid-1800s, a handful of American women decided enough was enough. Women deserved the right to vote, despite what most men (and women) of the time believed. How did the suffragists persuade a nation to change its laws?

First, they got organized. In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott lit a fire under 300 freethinkers at a meeting in Seneca Falls, New York, with passionate speeches in favor of women's rights. Before long, similar conventions were being held around the country. Female abolitionists, women educators, and bottle-smashing veterans of the Christian temperance movement joined the movement.

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