The Women's Suffrage Movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States which culminated in 1920 with the passage of Nineteenth Amendment.
Imagine you're playing a game where only half your team can actually participate while other half just watches from sidelines. That's what it was like before women had voting rights - they were part of society but couldn't fully participate until Women’s Suffrage Movement helped them get off those sidelines into action!
Seneca Falls Convention (1848): The first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls New York; it marked beginning of women's suffrage movement in US.
Nineteenth Amendment (1920): An amendment to U.S. Constitution that granted women the right to vote.
Susan B. Anthony: A prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into United States.
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