In one or two paragraphs, explain why women struggled for so long to gain the right to vote in the United States. Make sure
your answer includes a common social belief about women in the 1800s, an issue the women's
rights movement had to overcome, and a legal barrier activists faced as they fought for voting
rights.

The women's suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once.In 1869,

Anthony and Stanton organized the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) to work for a federal constitutional amendment, guaranteeing all American women the right to vote.

it was on the rise and doing very well and would continue to do well until the great depression from 1929-1939