Chapter 6: Votes for Women: Suffrage in the United States

A Student’s Guide to Essential Primary Sources
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Chapter 6 Votes for Women:Suffrage in the United States
The Quest for Women’s SuffrageBegins
The Seneca Falls Convention
The Civil War and Establishment ofCompeting Suffrage Organizations
African American Women Advocatefor Equal RightsAfrican American
State Actions Pave the Way to theNineteenth Amendment
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Abstract

Suffrage, the right to vote in elections, was fought for by women beginning with the founding of the United States. In her March 31, 1776, letter to husband John Adams, Abigail Adams warned that “If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.” Her words, however, failed to move the framers of the new American government. A woman’s role in society was believed to be in the home, educating the next generation of Americans in republican values and exerting influence on their husbands.

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