How Do You Better Understand Womens Suffrage?
Many of us are familiar with the term Woman-suffrage. By broad definition it is the right of women to share equally with men in the political privileges afforded by a representative government. In other words, it means the right of women to vote in elections and to hold public office. In a time where we have a woman running for the highest office in the land, it is good to review the history of suffrage and what it took to earn women the right to vote. Let’s start our historic journey in Colonial America. The woman-suffrage movement of modern times actually began in the post-revolutionary period. Prior to the revolution, the American woman was able to participate in public life more freely than women residing in Europe. In example, if you were a woman who owned property in Massachusetts between the dates of 1691 and 1786, you were afforded the right to vote. The Continental Congress debated the question of woman-suffrage to exhaustion; and then finally decided to leave the question up
