What Was The Women's Suffrage Movement

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The women’s suffrage movement in the United States was a movement to give women the right to vote. The suffragist had many obstacles on their way to ratifying the 19th Amendment. Most people at the time had strong opposition to women being involved in political and public affairs. Women were seen as housewives and not too much more. This proved to be difficult when the suffragists tried to get their point across. They were often scoffed at and seen as crazy and disrespectful. Women could not keep their own money, their husbands would be in charge of all finances, so getting the funding for suffrage programs was difficult. A lot of wealthy women who believed in the cause could not donate their money because their husbands simply would not allow

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