First Wave
During the late 1800s, following the end of the American Civil War, feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony began to campaign for women's suffrage in the United States. Stanton and Anthony led the National Woman Suffrage Association or the NWSA when it was established in 1869. This was the same year that the American Woman Suffrage Association came to be.
The Seneca Falls Convention was held between July 19–20 in 1848 with Stanton and Lucretia Mott where several discussions were held to debate the roles for women in society. During these meetings, Stanton devised a declaration of how women have been discriminated by men and the laws of the past known as the Declaration of Sentiments. Stanton also provides a list of resolutions describing how women should be treated equal.
American women were finally granted universal suffrage in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This prohibited any citizen being denied the right to vote based on gender.
Read more about this topic: Feminism In The United States
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