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=**Womans Suffrage**=
 * Womans suffrage began in the decades before the civil war. During the 1820 and 30's most had extended the franchise to all white men, regardless of how much money or property they had. Many American woman were beginning to go against historions have called the "cult of true woman head" that is the idea that the only "True Woman Was A Pious". During the 1850, the womans right movement gathered steam but lost momentum when the civil war began.**


 * Women's suffrage" refers to the right of women to vote and to hold public office. The "women's suffrage movement includes all the organized activities of reformers to change laws that kept women from voting or to add laws and constitutional amendments to guarantee women the right to vote.**
 * The first extension of full voting rights to women came in 1869, in the Wyoming Territory.**
 * The efforts of the women's suffrage organizations met with determined resistance. By seeking a voice in politics, women were challenging the conventional belief that women's proper sphere of influence was domestic, while men properly dominated the public sphere, including the political process**
 * This piecemeal pattern of suffrage achieved to varying degrees, state by state, was a slow and uncertain process. The leaders of the suffragist movement understood that even as they pursued such state-by-state tactics, they must also push for full suffrage at the national level, which could only be achieved through an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Just such an amendment, called the "Anthony Amendment," was introduced in the Senate in 1878, but was defeated by a vote of 34 to 16. The Amendment read, "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." The same amendment was reintroduced in each succeeding Congress, but made no progress until 1914, when NAWSA presented Congress with a petition signed by more than half a million people. The amendment was defeated in the Senate by a close vote of 35 to 34 in 1914, and in the House the next year by a vote of 204 to 174. Though both votes fell short of the necessary two-thirds majority, they were much closer than past votes had**
 * In an attempt to rally national support for the Anthony Amendment, Alice Paul organized a huge parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on the day before President Woodrow Wilson's first inauguration. But the peaceful parade degenerated into a riot when thousands of hostile male spectators broke into the ranks of the marchers and tried to block their passage. Essentially, the women had to fight their way down Pennsylvania Avenue, with the help of men who supported the women's suffrage movement. Troops had to be called in to restore order, and hundreds of people were hospitalized**


 * Mary Edwards Walker is the first and only woman in history to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. When the Civil War broke out, she went to Washington and tried to join the Union Army. She was denied a commission as a medical officer but volunteered anyway, serving unpaid as an acting assistant surgeon, the first female surgeon in the U.S. Army. **

Photo by Pfc. Lyndsey Dransfield Follow This Journalist **Brig. Gen. Anna Mae Hays became the first woman and the first nurse in American military history to attain the rank of general officer. During her tenure, she dealt with the imposing challenges of recruitment and retention as the Vietnam War reached its height. She received the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Army Commendation Medal, among other awards and commendations.**


 * Harriet Tubman** **comes across as a badass. She carried a rifle on her missions, leading slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Supposedly she told them at that if they ever gave moment’s thought to giving up or going back, they could consider that their last day. She wasn’t playing. This was serious stuff, and if you were in, you were in all the**


 * Carrie Chapman Catt - Leader of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and, after the 19th amendment was successfully passed in order to allow women the right to vote, she served as president of both The League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women. U.S. National Women’s Equality Day is on August 26, 2011 and marks the 91st anniversary of them gaining the right to vote in the United States.**

(October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was an American attorney, politician, educator, and author. She was active in working for women's rights, although the term feminist was not in use. The press of her day referred to her as a "suffragist," someone who believed in women's suffrage or voting rights