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Definition:

Women’s suffrage, also called woman suffrage, the right of women by law to vote in national or local elections.

Activists:

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, Emmeline Pankhurst, Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Lucy Burns.

Definition:

Women’s suffrage, also called woman suffrage, the right of women by law to vote in national or local elections.

History:

Women were excluded from voting in ancient Greece and republican Rome, as well as in the few democracies that had emerged in Europe by the end of the 18th century.
The question of women’s voting rights finally became an issue in the 19th century, and the struggle was particularly intense in Great Britain and the United States. By the early years of the 20th century, women had won the right to vote in national elections in New Zealand (1893), Australia (1902), Finland (1906), and Norway (1913). In Sweden and the United States they had voting rights in some local elections.

Activists:

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, Emmeline Pankhurst, Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Lucy Burns.

Interesting Facts:

In the fight for women's suffrage, most of the earliest activists found their way to the cause through the abolition movement of the 1830s.
The women’s rights movement launched its own fashion craze.
A woman ran for political office nearly 50 years before women got the vote.
The U.N. first explicitly named women’s suffrage as a human right in 1979.
Susan B. Anthony (and 15 other women) voted illegally in the presidential election of 1872

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