Suffrage is the right or exercise of the right to vote. Suffrage was seen as a right, a privilege or even a duty. Suffrage was first proposed as a federal amendment in 1868, women's suffrage struggled for many years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920. The call for American women's liberation was formulated to the first time in 1848 in Seneca Falls. after the civil war. In 1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association to work for the movement on a federal level and to press for more drastic institutional changes. Lucy Stone and Julia Ward formed the American Women Suffrage Association which aimed to secure voting throughout the state legislature. The two groups run by the four women finally united in 1890 under the name National American Woman Suffrage Association