Reconstruction led to the reinstatement of the southern states to the association, and reformulating the position African Americans in the United States. The process had begun before the civil war came to an end. Abraham Lincoln the president of the United States, started the unification of the states in 1863. The southerners took an oath of loyalty to show that they were to be loyal to the union and could take positions and establish governments. Lincolns’ liberation command made the United States bring slavery to an end. However, this command only freed slaves in the areas of liberation the others left in bondage. Freedom, gender, race, and political economic revolutionized in the reconstruction period. It led to the emergence of suffrage movements and amendment of the constitution, granting all citizens the right to vote.

In 1920, the US constitution got approved after the nineteenth constitutional amendment. It also granted the congress the power to exercise legislation where appropriate. The right to vote depicted the highest level of the women movement, which was led by the national American woman enfranchisement association. The women’s, enfranchisement movement had its origin in 1848. Three hundred thousand male and female activists had gathered during the convention to discuss the issue of women and come up with new strategies on how the political and social rights of the women could be achieved. However, the movement initially wasn’t really into the suffrage of women at its early stages. The first suffrage women movement began in 1869. Susan and Elizabeth Cady found the National Woman enfranchisement Association. “Lucy Stone, Julia Ward, and Henry Blackwell” were the founding fathers of the American Woman enfranchisement Association (Williamson, 2019). During the fifteenth amend these two associations became rivals. This was because, in the fifteenth amendment, men were granted the right to poll, and the National Woman enfranchisement supported it.

American woman suffrage association did not help the amendment, because suffrage for women was not included. Notably, the two movements despite having differences, they were later merged into one massive demonstration, the National American Woman enfranchisement Association in 1890. In the 1870s, the women enfranchisement activists began to endeavor to vote and filing case when they were denied the chance to vote. This brought a lot of consciousness to the movement especially after the apprehension of Susan Anthony when she tried to vote in the head of state elections in 1872. The women suffrage activists lived with hope that one day the law cases would reach the Supreme Court and they would be granted the right to vote just like men. However, it was so heartbreaking when the Supreme Court made a ruling that the United States Constitution didn’t owe anyone the right to the ballot. The Supreme Court ruling not only did it demoralize the activists but also acted as the motivating factor for the activist to push for another amendment (Brundage, & Gerstle, 2017). The union leaders started to form universal Suffrage movements. The activist began establishing drives that were to push for a constitutional amendment that was to grant voting rights to the women. The campaigns to achieve victories at the top level of the government ware started by the National American Woman Suffrage Movement. This union hoped that federal legislation would follow after the women had the right to poll. During the endorsement of the 19th amendment, the efforts of the association came to light as most of the states had granted limited voting rights to women.