In one or two paragraphs, explain why women struggled for so long to gain the right to vote in the United States. Make sure your answer includes a common social belief about women in the 1800s, an issue the women's rights movement had to overcome, and a legal barrier activists faced as they fought for voting rights.

Women struggled for so long to gain the right to vote because men didn’t see them as equals, society’s expectations saw women as different than men, and legal barriers caused conflicts for them. Women were expected to work around the house and care for the family, instead of participating in politics and working. Some women that were a part of the Women’s Rights Movement didn’t even want women to be able to vote. They feared that it would ruin the support for other rights, considering men didn’t take the idea of Women’s suffrage seriously. It was also hard for women to convince people to consider women’s right to vote, which was a big obstacle. In 1827, Susan B. Jones and other women tried to vote but were arrested. It was considered a crime for women to vote which made it harder for women to achieve their goals.

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