Suffrage

The U.S. women’s suffrage movement had its roots in the abolition movement.

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The women’s rights movement launched its own fashion craze.

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A woman ran for political office nearly 50 years before women received the vote.

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The women’s suffrage movement in Britain was far less militant than its counterpart in the United States.

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But some American suffragists, inspired by their British sisters-in-the-cause, adopted militant tactics themselves.

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The 29 words that ultimately became the 20th amendment were penned in Nevada City, CA by resident, Senator Aaron Sargent, his wife Ellen, and their close friend, Susan B. Anthony.

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New Jersey was the first place in the United States to extend the suffrage to women.

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The first woman to cast a vote in a general election was in 1870.

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Harry T. Burn, a Republican, from Tennessee was against suffrage, but was the deciding vote for the amendment because he misread the voting ballot.

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Southern states were adamantly opposed to the suffrage. (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia)

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