How Did This All Come About?

So you are probably all wondering how women’s suffrage actually got started and what influenced it. I have done a lot of research on this subject and came up with a lot of information on it.

In 1776 Abigail Adams wrote to her husband who was attending the Continental Congress in Philadelphia asking that he and the other men who were working on the Declaration of Independence “remembered the ladies.” John Adams wrote back joking saying the declaration states clearly that “all men are created equal.”

Sarah Grimke began her speaking career in 1836 as an abolitionist and women’s rights advocate. She was silenced by males who considered her speaking to be a liability. In the next year the first National Female Anti-Slavery Society convention meets in New York City and 81 delegates from 12 states attended. In 1890 the NAWSA was formed from two different associations but they came to the differences and joined together. Carrie Catt Chapman proposed her “winning plan” at the convention in New Jersey.

The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified on August 26, 1920. Its victory accomplished, NAWSA ceases to exist, but its organization becomes the canter of the League of Women Voters.

As you see it took a lot to get women’s suffrage and technically it was over a time span of 114 years. All the women who participated in this never gave up and eventually it paid off.