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suffrage movement and mothers  

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  • The suffrage movement, or the fight for women's right to vote, began in the United States in the 1840s. In 1848, the Seneca Falls convention in New York was convened, and in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote. [Source: Encyclopedia of Motherhood; Suffrage Movement and Mothers]

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