The enormous success of the temperance movement among native-born American women between 1874 and 1900 entwined the destiny of the suffrage movement with the temperance movement during the last ...

It was the culmination of a century of agitation for women’s suffrage. Beginning in the 1840s, women organized in a concerted effort to gain the vote. Their goal seemed almost impossible ...

The dismissal of this amendment led to the establishment of formal suffrage societies across England and Ireland. Yet, despite over four decades of campaigning, female suffrage had still not been ...

This fact was ultimately reflected in the different strategies used by the advocates of woman suffrage to remove sexual qualifications for voting. Although scholars typically trace the origins of ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

Garrisonian women did not necessarily oppose woman suffrage, but they emphasized instead the right of women to gain equal access to education and employment; equality within marriage, the family ...

Gov. John Cornwell understood the importance of securing women’s suffrage and called a special session of the state legislature, during which the House of Delegates voted to ratify the amendment ...

But Parliament, which was made up entirely of men, rejected it. Women around the country set up Women's Suffrage Groups to campaign for the right to vote. In 1897, the National Union of Women's ...

Liberal accounts of the women’s suffrage movement in the UK (often now referred to as the originally pejorative term “suffragettes”) often ignore or downplay its violence. While many do refer to the ...

no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate. Article V specifies the means by which the Constitution can be amended. It ends by forbidding amendments that ...

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This is an Anti-Suffrage pamphlet (cost 1d), published by the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League which was founded on 21 July 1908 to oppose votes for women. There were branches all over the UK.