The Case for Suffrage
As the leader of the National Woman Suffrage Association, Susan B. Anthony was a crusader for women’s suffrage, or women’s right to vote. In 1948, at a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, Anthony along with other reformers, including Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, presented the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. The document declared that men and women are created equal.
 Women’s suffrage cartoon |
Many states in the West had already given women the right to vote. Wyoming was admitted to the United States in 1869 with suffrage already a law. Perhaps the hardships shared by both male and female pioneers demonstrated their right to voting equity. Men in the South and East were not so quick to recognize the equality of women when choosing representatives at the state and national levels.
Suffrage map