The struggle for women’s suffrage began before the Civil War. In the early 1820’s and 30’s, women were beginning to chafe against what historians have called the "Cult of True Womanhood". The ideal woman was the woman who was a submissive wife and mother concerned exclusively with home and family.
Putting all these reasons, made them thinking about what it meant to be a woman and a citizen in the United States. A group of abolitionist activists, having more women and having a few men, in 1848, discuss the problem of women’s rights. They were invited to Seneca Falls, NY by reformers, such as, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
It meant that they believed that women should have the right to vote. Some of the suffrage advocates were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, which believed that they had their chance to push lawmakers into universal suffrage. In 1869, National Woman Suffrage Association began to fight for a universal-suffrage amendment to the federal Constitution. (“The Fight for Women’s Rights”, History.com)
