Women suffrage was the restriction of women to vote in any type of political election. It also was keeping women out of being elected into office or to hold a place in an either major or minor appointive seat in the government. Women in the United States made the fight for suffrage their most fundamental demand because they saw it as the defining feature of full citizenship. The philosophy underlying women's suffrage was the belief in "natural rights" to govern themselves and choose their own representatives. Woman's suffrage asserted that women should enjoy individual rights of self-government, rather than relying on indirect civic participation as the mothers, sisters, or daughters of male voters. However, most men and even some women believed that women were not suited by circumstance or temperament for the vote. Because women by nature were believed to be dependent on men and subordinate to them, many thought women could not be trusted to exercise the independence of thought necessary for choosing political leaders responsibly.
Women all over the United States brought up how they were suffering from the 1600's and on. Margaret Brent was the first to bring the suffrage up in the colonies of North America in 1647. She wanted to have two votes among the colony but the governor denied it. The first serious proposal in the United States to letting women vote was in July, 1848 at a the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention, which was held and started by a women named Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. One of the women that had appeared at the convention won a vote throughout the nation in 1920. Her name was Charlotte Woodward at the time of this convention she was only 19. She was also the only one that attended the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention that lived to cast her vote; she was 81 years old and proud.
Many women got upset when the 15th amendment was passed, it let blacks vote but women still could not.
