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Women's Suffrage was the struggle to achieve equal rights for women and the right for women to vote and run for office. The Women's Suffrage Movement started in 1848 in Seneca Falls NY. The women were led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. They made a Declaration of Sentiments that consisted of demanding the right to vote for women. The Declaration of Sentiments was based on the Declaration of Independence. They wanted to be equal like everyone else in the world. So they fought for what was right.

The suffrage movement in 1869 split into the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) led by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Blackwell. The suffrage gained great popularity after the story of the 15th amendment. In 1893 women got the vote in Colorado, followed by Utah (1896), Idaho (1896), Washington (1910), California (1911), Arizona (1912), Kansas (1912), Oregon (1912), Illinois (1913), Nevada (1914) and Montana (1914). The suffrage movement attracted a new group of women in the early 1900's.Carrie Chapman Cat and Maud Wood Park Attracted Middle class women while Alice Paul, Harriot E. Blatch, and Lucy Burns attracted the women from the working class.

Marches and parades as forms of active protest were organized by the women. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns separated and made there own group called the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage. In 1917 the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage joined the National Women’s Party. By 1918 in the middle of WWI Woodrow Wilson said the women's suffrage was needed as "war measure." The House of Representatives passed an amendment granting women's suffrage, but the Senate defeated it. Another amendment was shown to Congress in February 1919 but this was declined also. By May of 1919, the amendment was passed by the House and Senate. By 1920, the 19th amendment to the Constitution was ratified by the states.

= Susan B. Anthony = was the leader and Founder of the womens suffrage movement. She eventually went on to getting a law passed for women to be equal to men and vote and run for office.

= Harriet Tubman = In her late years,Tubman helped to promote the cause of women's suffrage. Tubman began attending meetings of suffragist organizations, and was soon working alongside women such as Susan B. Anthony and Emily Howland.

= Elizabeth Cady Stanton = was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's movement. Her Deceleration of Sentiments presented at the first women's right convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States.

= Ida B. Wells = Ida was an African American Journalist, newspaper editor and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was active in the women's right and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several notable women's organizations. Wells was a skilled and persuasive rhetorician, and traveled internationally on lecture tours.

= Lucretia Mott = was an American Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. In 1848 Mott and Stanton organized a women's rights convention at Seneca Falls New York. Mott signed the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments. Over the next few decades,women's suffrage became the focus of the women's rights movement. While Stanton is usually credited as the leader of that effort, it was Mott's mentoring of Stanton and their work together that inspired the event. Mott's sister,Martha Coffin Wright, also helped organize the convention and signed the declaration.