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= = Women's suffrage is the movement of women fighting for rights for all women. The movement lasted years. Women got some positive things and negetive things from the movement. some positive things are women got the right to vote and so many other rights that men have. some negetive things from the movement are some of the women who fought for women rights died doing it and some of the rights we have now is still hard for men to accept.

A lot of women were in the movement. Five of the ones fighting for womens rights were: Carrie Chapman Cott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Ida B. Wells, and Susan B. Anthony.

Carrie Chapman Cott was the NAWSA oresident in 1904. She gave speeches and organized women to campaign.



Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a women right activist,feminist,editor,and writer.She helped form NAWSA in 1869 and she was their first president. She died Oct. 26,1902 from old age. Elizabeth made more women want equal rights. Lucretia Mott was an anti-slavery women's rights leader. She organized the first women's rights convention. She also wrote a book called __Discourage on Women__. She helped women see that they were treated unfairly. s Ida B. Wells was a women's rights advocate, journalist, and speaker.

Susan B. Anthony became active in temperance after teaching for 15 years. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852. In 1856 Anthony joined the American Anti-Slavery Society, arranging meetings, making speeches, putting up posters, and distributing leaflets. She encountered hostile mobs, armed threats, and things thrown at her. She was hung.