Women"s Suffrage in the United States.

Ladia Taft in February 2, 1712- November 9, 1778 was a forerunner of women's suffrage in colonial America. Ladia Was the first women to legally vote in colonial America. After she died her oldest son and husband left the family.

On June 2, 1848 in Rochester New york Gerrit Smith was nomittated as the Liberty Party's presidential canidate.At this conention, five votes were placed calling for Lucretia Mott to be Smitt's vice-president--the first time in the Untied States that a women was nominated for federal executive office.

Access to divoce depenped unpon in which American state a person lived, and upon the women's legal resources. Some states opposed divores on alomst all grounds. After her husband horsewhipped and beat her, one women took her pleafor divorce to the North Carolina Supreme COurt in 1862. The Chief Justice denied her, stating "The law gives the husband power to use such degree of force necessary to make the wife behave and know her place.

In MAy 1869, the NWSA was formed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; an organization made up primaly of women. Their objet was to secure an amendment to the Constitution in favor of women's suffrage, and they opposed passage of the fifteenth Amendment ("The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude") unless it was change to guarantee to traditional female roles.