Progressive women became increasingly involved in activism with the goal of acquiring equal voting rights. Women only got the right to vote in the U.S. in 1920, thanks to the 19th Amendment and the progressive movement.
In fact, the first wave of feminism is considered to be the movement that achieved the women's suffrage, and some of its most important leaders were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Ida B. Wells.
Mormons were persecuted for their religion in Illinios and their leader was murdered. Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
