Posts Tagged ‘#womenshistory’

Suffrage is defined as the right to vote in elections. Women in the United States had fought for suffrage since the time of Andrew Jackson’s presidency in the 1820s. Before the Civil War, women were allowed limited voting in a few states. New Jersey allowed women to vote before their state’s constitution outlawed it in 1844. In 1869, Congress passed the soon-to-be-ratified 15th Amendment to…