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since gaining the right to vote women have obviously retained that right and were able to make a difference in Americas government

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1848. First Women's Rights Convention. ...

1849. The First National Women's Rights Convention. ...

1851. “Ain't I a woman?” ...

1861-1865. The Civil War. ...

1866. Formation of the American Equal Rights Association. ...

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an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.

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As with past elections, a higher share of women (68.4%) than men (65.0%) turned out to vote.

The 19th amendment was orignially intorduced in 1878. It was introduced every year to congress, for 41 years until Mississippi finally agreed to ratify it.

Derivitation of Suffrage: The term has nothing to do with suffering but instead derives from the Latin word “suffragium,” meaning the right or privilege to vote. ... Meaning suffragists were those in support of the expansion of the "Privilege to vote"

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The idea of Women's Suffrage was originally adopted and supported by the Republicans. As time went on, many Democratic politicians began to support the idea. When the 19th was eventually ratified, 200 republicans and 102 Democrats 

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The idea of Women's Suffrage was originally adopted and supported by the Republicans. As time went on, many Democratic politicians began to support the idea. When the 19th was eventually ratified, 200 republicans and 102 Democrats 

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Their Goals included: equal rights; equal payment, equal education, right to own land, right to vote, right to serve in a place of political power. They also fought for sexual freedom, allowing all people, men or women to express their sexuality in whatever way they pleased. Overall, suffragists sought freedom, equality, and mainly, an amendment that Nationally protected these rights and freedoms. 

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Their Goals included: equal rights; equal payment, equal education, right to own land, right to vote, right to serve in a place of political power. They also fought for sexual freedom, allowing all people, men or women to express their sexuality in whatever way they pleased. Overall, suffragists sought freedom, equality, and mainly, an amendment that Nationally protected these rights and freedoms. 

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The 19th Amendment helped millions of women move closer to equality in all aspects of American life. Women advocated for job opportunities, fairer wages, education, sex education, and birth control

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Emma Goldman dedicated her life to the creation of a radically new social order. Convinced that the political and economic organization of modern society was fundamentally unjust, she embraced anarchism for the vision it offered of liberty, harmony and true social justice. For decades, she struggled tirelessly against widespread inequality, repression and exploitation.

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she devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women. Born in 1879, Sanger came of age during the heyday of the Comstock Act, a federal statute that criminalized contraceptives. Margaret Sanger believed that the only way to change the law was to break it.

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women gained the ability to run for positions in office and now there are more and more women holding important positions in  state and national office

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In the early 20 th century, at a time when matters surrounding family planning or women's healthcare were not spoken in public, Margaret Sanger founded the birth control movement and became an outspoken and life-long advocate for women's reproductive rights. In her later life, Sanger spearheaded the effort that resulted in the modern birth control pill by 1960.

Born September 14, 1879, in Corning, New York, the sixth of eleven children born to Michael Hennessey Higgins, a stonemason, and Anna Purcell Higgins, a devoutly Roman Catholic Irishwoman. Sanger's life course was shaped by the poverty of her childhood and the death of her mother at age 50, which Sanger understood resulted from the physical toll of eleven pregnancies. Sanger later became a nurse, attending Claverack College and Hudson River Institute in 1896 and completing the nursing program at White Plains Hospital in 1902. That year she married William Sanger, an architect, and moved to Hastings, New York, where the couple had three children.

The Sangers moved to New York City in 1910, where they became involved with various Progressive Era activists and intellectuals, including Max Eastman, Upton Sinclair, and Emma Goldman. Sanger became a member of the Women's Committee of the New York chapter of the Socialist Party, and participated in women's labor protests, such as strikes in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 and Paterson, New Jersey in 1913.

Sanger strongly believed that the ability to control family size was crucial to ending the cycle of women's poverty. But it was illegal to distribute birth control information. Working as a visiting nurse, she frequented the homes of poor immigrants, often with large families and wives whose health was impaired by too many pregnancies, miscarriages, or in desperation botched abortions. Often, too, immigrant wives would ask her to tell them "the secret," presuming that educated white women like Sanger knew how to limit family size. Sanger made it her mission to 1) provide women with birth control information and 2) repeal the federal Comstock Law , which prohibited the distribution of obscene materials through the mails, and regarded birth control information as such.

In 1914, Sanger launched her own feminist publication, The Woman Rebel, advocating for birth control. She was charged with violating the Comstock laws and fled to England, though had friends share a pamphlet she authored on contraceptive techniques in her absence. She returned a year later to stand trial, but when her five-year-old daughter died unexpectedly, public pressure led to the charges against Sanger being dropped.

In 1916, she opened the first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Barely a week later, she was arrested and spent 30 days in jail. Sanger's arrest garnered much media attention and brought her several affluent supporters. She appealed her conviction, and although she lost, the courts ruled that physicians could prescribe contraceptives to women for medical reasons, a loophole that allowed Sanger to open a clinic in 1923 staffed by female doctors and social workers, which would later become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Sanger and her husband divorced in 1914; she remarried James Noah Slow, an oil tycoon, in 1922, while continuing her advocacy work. Sanger launched the Birth Control Review in 1917 and founded the American Birth Control League in 1921 to gain support from social workers, medical professionals, and the public for birth control. In 1929, she formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control to lobby Congress for legislation that would permit doctors to prescribe birth control. Despite resistance from doctors and the Catholic Church throughout her activist career, over time, Sanger's efforts led to the legalization and wide-spread usage of contraceptives in the United States. In 1936, the courts made it legal for doctors to prescribe birth control. In 1971 the Comstock laws finally ended, nearly a century after their passage.

Sanger's steadfast focus on birth control sometimes had unintended consequences. She spent time with the eugenics movement, which sought to "breed" out "undesirable" populations by limiting their ability to procreate through birth control and sterilization. Sanger saw the value of birth control science in preventing birth defects, and although she disagreed with the racial and class focus of the eugenics movement, her association with it tarnished her reputation.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Sanger expanded her efforts internationally. Sanger retired in 1942 and moved to Tucson, Arizona, though she remained a passionate advocate for birth control. In the late 1950s, with funding from International Harvester heiress Katharine McCormick, Sanger recruited researcher Gregory Pincus to develop an oral contraceptive. The "pill" was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1960. Sanger died in 1966 at the age of 86.

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Margaret Sanger founded the birth control movement and became an outspoken and life-long advocate for women's reproductive rights.

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an anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

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the spirit of working women's cause for economic freedom and equality

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invention of birth control led to increased accessibility and more convience for women

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She wrote books in support of Women's rights, traveled the country giving speeches and spreading the word of social equality. She was a top leader in the American Equal Rights Association. And the founder/cofounder of the National Women's Suffrage Association.

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The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's political organization formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage. After achieving this goal with the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the NWP advocated for other issues including the Equal Rights Amendment.

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Carrie Chapman Catt was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave US women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 to 1920