Why were people pushing for the suffrage movement?
It depends on whether or not you believe in democracy, and whether or not you believe that everyone should be able to vote. When Democracy was invented in ancient Greece, it was confined to male citizens, who made up only a minority of the population (women and slaves could not vote). When they started to take up democracy in Europe in recent centuries, the vote was generally confined to male property-owners. In England at the time of the American Revolutionary War, for instance, only one British person in twenty had the vote. In America, after the Revolutionary War, the franchise was extended to most free men, and so women who cared felt their exclusion from the franchise more keenly. In england, men’s suffrage was not extended to include most men until the 1860s, so the campaign for women’s suffrage got started later than it did in America. Western states in America like Wyoming gave women the vote in the late nineteenth cnetury because they wanted to attract more female settlers. Ho
