How Women Got the Vote: You Might Be Surprised | Intellectual Takeout

How Women Got the Vote: You Might Be Surprised | Intellectual Takeout: 
"One hundred years ago this month, the Women’s Suffrage Amendment became the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. 
This amendment is simple and reads as follows:

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

For the past forty years, some Democrats have hammered Republicans as being against women’s rights, largely because so many Republicans oppose abortion. 

Some even claim that women who vote for conservatives, who vote Republican, or who vote against abortion, are traitors to their sex. 

Perhaps a history lesson on women and voting is in order.  

Let’s start with the suffragettes, the women who sought the right to vote in the United States. Susan B. Anthony and most suffragettes were longstanding Republicans, abolitionists whose oppositions to slavery were tied to their calls for women’s suffrage. 

These women worked tirelessly to win the vote, meeting with such luminaries as Theodore Roosevelt and publicly protesting what they considered a repression of their rights. 

In 1872, Anthony herself was arrested for voting. 

That vote, by the way, was cast for a Republican. 

Now let’s move on to the passage of the 19th Amendment. From the National Federation of Republican Women we have this brief history of the struggle that led to suffrage for women...Read all!