It may seem as though American women have always been able to vote but that is not the case. For the first 150 years of our countrys existence women they had little power and were not aloud to vote. By observing pre civil war antislavery meetings however they discovered they're political voice. When Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were forced to watch from a womens balcony instead of taking part in a antislavery meeting they reacted back by calling the first formal womens rights meeting in the United States. It was held in Seneca Falls New York on July 19 1848. The womens movement grew and pressed for equal status for women in education, at work, having more legal rights in their families, and at the polls. Women one the right to vote
