The goal of the woman's suffrage movement in the United States (as in all countries) was to obtain for women the right to vote in elections. In 1920, women did earn that right, and so the suffrage movement ended.
However, the larger women's rights movement continued. Suffrage, or the vote, was only one component of the push for equal rights for women.
The fight for the women's vote began in the 1820s and was a centerpiece of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention. Between the creation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890 and the year 1918, a number of states and territories voted to support the right of women to vote. Finally, in 1920, the United States passed the 19th amendment, which granted the vote to all women.
The primary goal of the Women's Suffrage movement was to achieve suffrage for women, as the name implies, meaning that they were seeking to have equal voting rights accorded to women. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was finally passed, which largely put an end to decades of agitation and political campaigning from women, as it meant that women were able to vote in the presidential election of that year.
Of course, we are here only referring to the white Women's Suffrage movement. The African-American women who had campaigned alongside them for decades did not enjoy the same protection as their white sisters when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed. It would be a further four decades before African American women in America were able to vote without impediment, particularly in the South, and consequently the Women's Suffrage Movement in the USA did not end in 1920. African-American women, who were seen as a unique threat in Southern States, often found themselves hounded at the polls and physically denied their voting rights, with the result being that they were forced to continue to protest for their suffrage.
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