Fighting for the Vote

 

The first women's rights convention took place in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in July 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, it claimed that "all men and women are created equal" and that "the history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman."
With the Union victory in the Civil War, women abolitionists hoped their hard work would result in suffrage for women as well as for blacks.

 

The struggle to win the vote was slow and frustrating. Wyoming Territory in 1869, Utah Territory in 1870, and the states of Colorado in 1893 and Idaho in 1896 granted women the vote but the Eastern states resisted. A woman-suffrage amendment to the Federal Constitution, presented to every Congress since 1878, repeatedly failed to pass.

I think that is really interesting how women can formed groups to fight for their rights, and i feel greatful because of this women nowadays i can have the life i have, i think we still need to be more equal and try to make change to some men that still have that way of think, but i now that we can do it.