The purpose of the suffrage movement in the mid to late 1800s was to gain the right to vote for women.
The founding moment of the suffrage movement was in 1848 with the Declaration of Sentiments of Seneca Falls in the United States and culminated a hundred years later, in 1948, with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that recognizes women's suffrage as a universal human right.
In 1920 the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was passed, which stipulated that neither the states of the United States of America nor the federal government could deny a citizen the right to vote regarding the sex of the person.
