Throughout history, it has been made clear that women did not always have the same rights as men. Yet during the 1800s and early 1900s, or around the time of the Civil War, some women began to do something about this. During this time period began the women’s suffrage movement, in which women tried to gain voting rights for women in the United States. An article from History.com says that, “In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists–mostly women, but some men–gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the problem of women’s rights. (They were invited there by the reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.) Most of the delegates agreed: American women were autonomous individuals who deserved their own political identities” One of these women that participated in the women’s suffrage movement includes Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton was born into a wealthy family in New York, Women like her contributed greatly to the women’s rights movement, and many of her actions could be traced to the creation of the Nineteenth Amendment, the amendment that finally gave women the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a successful suffragette despite not living to see the creation the Nineteenth Amendment. She founded the National Women's Loyal League, helped organized the first women's rights…