- The suffrage movement was a struggle for women's right to vote, which was granted by the 19th Amendment in August 1920.
- The movement began in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
- The Declaration of Sentiments, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, asserted that all men and women are created equal.
- In the nineteenth century, American women were not allowed to own property, get a divorce, attend college, or vote; they were expected to marry, raise children, and be good housekeepers.
- Stanton wrote about these inequalities in the Declaration of Sentiments.
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