Women Granted the Right to Vote in U.S. 1920
On August 18, 1920 the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Accomplish this objective required a lengthy and difficult fight for the women in American. There were so many changes that American women had to go through in order to get the respect and rights that they deserve. One woman who attended the convention for women’s rights was Charlotte Woodward. She was nineteen at the time. In 1920, when women finally won the vote throughout the nation, Charlotte Woodward was the only member in the 1848 Convention who was still alive to cast her vote. At the age of eighty-one years old, she cast her vote proudly. Votes for women were first seriously proposed in the United States in July, 1848, at the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
On August 18, 1920 the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Accomplish this objective required a lengthy and difficult fight for the women in American. There were so many changes that American women had to go through in order to get the respect and rights that they deserve. One woman who attended the convention for women’s rights was Charlotte Woodward. She was nineteen at the time. In 1920, when women finally won the vote throughout the nation, Charlotte Woodward was the only member in the 1848 Convention who was still alive to cast her vote. At the age of eighty-one years old, she cast her vote proudly. Votes for women were first seriously proposed in the 
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