Tiara+Is+Woman's+Suffrage

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__**Tiara's Project Woman's Suffrage - Seneca Falls to 19th Adendment ! **__  Woman's Suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office. The Woman's Suffrage is also used for the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending these rights to woman and without any restictions or qualifications such as property ownership, payment of tax , or marital status. The movement modern orgins can be attributed to the late -18 century like France, although full suffrage did not come to France or any of the type Canadian province of Quebec .Limiting voting rights were gained by some women in Sewden , Britain , and some western U.S states in the 1860's. The British of New Zealand became the first self-governing nation to extend the right to vote to all adult women.

 Womans Suffrage has generally been recoginized after political campagins to obtain it were waged. The first European country to introduce women's suffrage was the Grand Principality of Finland and that country, then a part of the Russian Empire with autonomous powers , produced the world's first female members of parliament as a result of the 1907 parliamentary elections. Women's suffrage has generally been recognized after political campaigns to obtain it were waged. In many countries it was granted before universal suufrage. Womens's suffrage is explicity stated as a right under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimation Against Women adopted by th United Nation in 1979.

 In medieval France and several other European countries, voting for city and town assemblies and meetings was open to the heads of households. In Sweden, conditional woman suffrage was granted during the age of liberty between 1718 and 1771, when taxpaying women listed in the guilds as professionals were allowed to vote. Women were entitled to vote in the Corsican Republic in 1755 whose Constition stipulated a national representative assembly elected by all inhabitants over the age of 25, both women (if unmarried or widowed) and men.Women's suffrage was ended when France annexed the island in 1769. The modern movement for women's suffrage originated in France in the 1780s and 1790s, There were ladys that advocated women's suffrage in national elections.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Who: She was an American social activist, abolitionist , and leading figure of the early womans movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's women's rights convention. What: Was exclusively to women rights, also worked with her husband Henrt Brewster Stanton.\ November 12,1815-October 26,1902

Susan B Anthony Who : She was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. What: She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with a woman by the name of Elizabeth Cady Statn as President. Also co-founded the women's right journal, The Revolution.

Frances Wright Who: A Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker,feminist,ablitionist , and social reformer. What:Founded the Nashaba Commune in Tennessee as a utopian community to prepare slaves for emancipation, intending to create an egalitarian place. September 6,1756-December 13,1852



Mary Livermore <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">Who: A woman by the name of Mary Ashton Rice born in Boston Massachusetts, that went to an all female seminary in charlestown ,Massachusetts And read the entire bible every year intil the age of 23. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">What :Was A tutor on a Virginia plantation and after witnessing the cruel institution of slavery, she becoame a ablitionist for women. .

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">Carrie Cahpman Catt <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">Who : January 9,1859-March 9 ,1947 was a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States constitution which gave U.S Women the right to vote in 1920. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">What: She Was the founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women.

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