Question

In one or two paragraphs, explain why women struggled for so long to gain the right to vote in the United States. Make sure your answer includes a common social beliefs about women in the 1800s, an issue the women's rights movement had to overcome,and a legal barrier activists faced as they fought for voting rights.

Answer 1

Answer:

The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. But on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.