The Right to Vote

No matter the struggles the women had faced or the local achievements they had won, the time had come for the government’s decision about women’s rights. Between the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association and the National Party, the women had been making the headlines of newspapers about women’s demand for rights for years. With over 25 women being arrested in the 1910's simply for picketing in front of the White House, the Congress needed to act. Congress had brought this topic up once before but it lost, in 1887, 34 to 16 with twenty-five Senators who did not participate.