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The first thing woman tried to enforce was the temperance league. They were tired of their husbands coming home drunk and then not helping around the house. They were fighting for prohibition.
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Women's rights started to build at a national level. The first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls. More than 300 people attended this event mostly women but some men did as well. Their belief was that women should be offered better opportunities for education and employment.
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The convention repeated annually providing an important focus for the growing woman suffrage movement it was held in Worcester Massachusetts.
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At the Ohio women's rights convention, Sojourner Truth reads a speech that is regarded as one of the most powerful moments in the early women's liberation movement.
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was formed with the purpose of fighting for a federal constitutional amendment that would grant women the right to vote.
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The suffrage movement has gathered enough influence to lobby the U.S congress for a constitutional amendment. Congress responded by forming committees however when the proposal finally reached the senate floor in 1886 it was defeated.
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In 1890 the new organization's strategy was to lobby for women's voting right's on a state-by-state basis.
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Wyoming joined the union and allowed women to vote to encourage more women to settle in wyoming.
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It had passed with a necessary two-thirds majority vote. in June 1919 it was approved by the Senate and sent to the states for ratification.
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19th Amendment was certified by u.s secretary of state Bainbridge Colby, and women finally achieved the long-sought right to vote throughout the United States.