Answer:
Starting in the 1800s, members of the suffragist movement in the United States focused on women's right to vote.
Explanation:
Women's suffrage in the territory of today's USA was first officially introduced in the state of New Jersey in 1776 by a special law, which allowed men and women to vote. In 1790, an amendment explicitly confirmed this right. However, in 1807, a new amendment to the law abolished the right of women to vote, limiting it to men.
In the first half of the 19th century, the movement for women's suffrage was quite underdeveloped, and was reduced to isolated individuals, whose views were considered exotic by the public at the time. A far greater impetus was given to it by the Civil War, to which women on both sides made a significant contribution. Feminist ideas, smoldering within the broader civil rights movement, were first shaped into a concrete movement through the National Association for Women’s Voting Rights (NWSA) led by Susan B. Anthony founded in 1869 in New York City.
The outbreak of the First World War, that is, the entry of the United States into the war in 1917, significantly helped to achieve the goals of the suffrage movement, similarly to Britain. The participation of women in the war industry, as well as hopes that a female voice would help his party, finally forced President Wilson to openly support the suffragettes and ask Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment.
