What was women’s suffrage?

Women's suffrage was a movement that struggled for the right of women to cast their vote and to  run for office. It was a long fight that took almost a hundred years to succeed in the USA. The first campaigns for women's suffrage began before the Civil War with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. It was not until 1920 with the 19th Amendment that women across the USA could cast their vote for the first time.