The petticoat vote.(Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the suffragette movement)

Appleseeds | September 1, 2004| | Copyright

"A thousand kisses." That's how Elizabeth Cady Stanton ended letters to her children. And seven children meant a lot of kisses! Like other young mothers in the 1800s, Elizabeth cooked, cleaned, and sewed for her family. And through it all, she fought for the rights of women.

American women didn't always have the same rights as men. Married women couldn't own property, and no woman could vote. Elizabeth didn't think that was fair. So in 1848, she organized a meeting in Seneca Falls, New York, and suggested that women should have the right to vote. America was ...

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