Background

("Women's Suffrage")

The 19th Amendment's background started with the first Women's Rights Convention which motivated the suffragetts to fight for the women's suffrage movement ("19th Amendment "). The First Women's Rights Convention was in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 ("19th Amendment"). Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott worked together and organized the First Women's Rights Convention ("19th Amendment"). After the First Women's Rights Convention there was a second Women's Rights Convention on April 20, 1852 (Drexler). There were 400-500 women present and mostly from other places (Drexler). In 1867 the men of the Judiciary Committees were saying that women should have a voice (Drexler). In 1872 a group of women were jailed for illegal voting (Drexler). Carrie Chapman Catt wrote that only twice women have voted in the Senate, the first time was in 1887 and the second time was in 1914 (Drexler). In 1917 women were inching closer to achieveing their goal of the 19th Amendment (Drexler). In 1918 there were multiple parades to convince the men that women are equal to them (Drexler). Tennessee was the 36th state on August 18, 1920 to ratify the 19th Amendment and the last state to ratify ("19th Amendment to the..."). Finally women in the U.S. were free to vote.