Defining Documents in American History: The Women’s Suffrage Movement

What now seems like a basic right for all citizens, the right to vote was not always afforded to American women. The fight to attain this right started in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention about women’s rights to be held in the U.S., and took until the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920 to achieve at the federal level. Various states granted women the right to vote in the interim.