大会的发言者包括废奴主义者索杰纳·特鲁思(Sojourner Truth)，妇女选举权活动家露西·斯通(Lucy Stone)，以及哈里特·亨特(Harriet Hunt)医生，她因为性别而曾被哈佛医学院(Harvard Medical School)拒绝录取。代表们通过了一项决议，要求得到“与男性平等的政治、法律和社会权利”。

在20年之内，怀俄明(Wyoming)领地将投票权给予了妇女，一共1000名妇女获得了这项权利。在1870年9月6日，拉勒米(Laramie)的路易莎·安·斯温(Louisa Ann Swain)在去买一桶酵母的路上，在一个投票站中途停下，成为在美国大选中投票的第一位女性。

到了20世纪初，许多州，主要是在美国西部的州，已允许妇女在市政选举中投票。 1920年，美国宪法第19条修正案(19th Amendment to the US Constitution)将投票权赋予了所有达到投票年龄的美国女性。

最著名的妇女选举权运动家之一，爱丽丝·保罗(Alice Paul)在谈到该运动的成功时说：“我一直觉得我们的运动好似马赛克拼图。我们每个人都放上一块小石头，最后你会看到一幅精彩的马赛克图像。”

Today’s women can run major corporations, serve in the military and hold public office. But they owe these opportunities to predecessors who fought to secure an education, earn equal pay for equal work and, most importantly, secure the right to vote. The first National Women’s Rights Convention, held on October 23, 1850, in Worcester, Massachusetts, demonstrated that the cause of women’s rights could support a national movement.

Among the speakers were the abolitionist Sojourner Truth, the suffragist Lucy Stone and the physician Harriet Hunt, who had been denied admission to Harvard Medical School because of her gender. The delegates adopted a resolution demanding “political, legal, and social equality with man.”

Within 20 years, the Wyoming territory extended the right to vote to its women — all 1,000 of them. On September 6, 1870, Louisa Ann Swain from Laramie stopped off at a polling place on her way to buy a bucket of yeast and became the first woman to vote in a general election in the United States.

By the turn of the 20th century, many states, mostly in the western U.S., allowed women to vote in municipal elections. In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution extended the ballot to all American women of voting age.

Alice Paul, one of the leading woman suffrage champions, explained the movement’s success: “I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.”