Woman Suffrage 1800s

Woman suffrage is the right for women to vote, while suffrage was just the right to vote for anyone. The people who fought for woman suffrage, whether they were a man or a woman, were called suffragists. The idea or woman suffrage began in the early 1800’s, when changing social conditions, along with the idea of equality, caused some women to feel like they were being treated unfairly, which caused them to found the woman's suffrage movement. However, the movement did not actually start until the year 1848, when two reformers named Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton called a woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, where one of the reformers lived. This was one of the first public appeals for woman suffrage. Another show of wanting woman equality came in the year 1916, when Margaret Sanger opened the first American birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y. Ten days later, the clinic is shut down and Sanger is arrested, though she eventually wins support …show more content…
When suffrage was finally granted to women in 1920, people could not tell if it was the ballot of a male or a female, so every vote was worth the same, meaning that both men and women were equal when they voted. In the year 1980, 59.4% of voting-age women voted, while 59.1% of voting-age men voted. This is the first time in the history of the USA that men and women had equal, or almost equal, turnout. That means that for the first time, the president was chosen by an equal amount of both men and women compared to an estimated 65% of women in Chicago that did not vote in the year 1923. The reasons why the women did not vote varied, but the most popular reason was that the women were blaming women suffrage for problems, such as women's husbands abusing the women when he was drunk. However, as time went on, more and more women started voting, and the number of women and men evened