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Womens suffrage

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Suffrage
The right to vote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(1815-1902) A suffragette who, with Lucretia Mott, organized the first convention on women's rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848.
Susan B Anthony
social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation
True Womanhood
In the 19th century, the idea of true womanhood preached the values of piety and purity for women. Women were the authority on the emotional lives of their families and society; these values were their sacred duties.
Gender Spheres
the differences of women and men
19th Amendment
women the right to vote
NWP
National Woman's Party - Led by "militant" British suffragist Alice Paul - Little patience for "State by State" tactic and started to oppose the federal "party in power"
NAWSA
National American Woman Suffrage Association; founded in 1890 to help women win the right to vote
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