The second event that lead to women having the right to vote was in 1875. In that time women pushed for a national constitutional amendment to grant women the vote. Stanton succeeded in having the amendment introduced in California, but it was killed later. For the next 41 years, women lobbied to have it reintroduced, only to see it continually voted down. Before the turn of the century, the campaign for suffrage achieved only modest success. Later, however, women’s reform efforts paid off in improvements in the treatment of workers and in safer food and drug products all of which president Theodore Roosevelt supported, along with his own plans for reforming businesses, labor and the environment. I choose this event because they tried to get
