In what way was the movement for women's suffrage progressive?

Immediately after the Civil War, Susan B. Anthony, a strong and outspoken advocate of women's rights, demanded that the Fourteenth Amendment include a guarantee of the vote for women as well as for African-American males. read more

The Woman’s Rights movement was liberal, but was not progressive. There is a difference. The Progressives are to the Liberals what the Tea Party is to main stream Conservatives - extremists. read more

The woman suffrage movement actually began in 1848, when a women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. The Seneca Falls meeting was not the first in support of women’s rights, but suffragists later viewed it as the meeting that launched the suffrage movement. read more

Women became leaders in a range of social and political movements from 1890 through 1920, known as the Progressive Era. Prominent suffragists led progressive causes. Jane Addams established Chicago’s Hull-House, and Ida B. Wells led a campaign against the lynching of African Americans. read more