who gave women's right to vote first in us
Women's suffrage in the United States Lydia Taft (1712â€“1778), a wealthy widow, was allowed to vote in town meetings in Uxbridge, Massachusetts in 1756.[2] No other women in the colonial era are known to have voted.
Women's suffrage in the United States The demand for women's suffrage[4] emerged as part of the broader movement for women's rights. In England in 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a pioneering book called A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.[5] In Boston in 1838 Sarah Grimké published The Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women, which was widely circulated.[6] In 1845 Margaret Fuller published Woman in the Nineteenth Century, a key document in American feminism that first appeared in serial form in 1839 in The Dial, a transcendentalist journal that Fuller edited.[7]