erally it was considered improper for women of a certain class to earn a living. Women could not vote, involve themselves in politics, or argue with their husbands, and they had no legal rights to possessions or their own children. The woman suffrage movement, says Kraditor, developed out of the woman's rights movement, a challenge to the status quo and an assertion that women had rights to work, to family, and to self-development just as did men. The suffrage movement related to the women's rights movement because it was believed that women had to have the vote in order to have the means to improve their conditions and to grain greater equality. Mrs. Cady Stanton and Mrs. Lucretia Mott organized a conference to discuss women's rights as early as 1848. Once the slaves were freed by the Civil War, women saw a chance to push their claim for suffrage. At the same time, the issue o
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