Why were women who fought for the 19th Amendment called “Suffragettes”?

The term has nothing to do with suffering but instead derives from the Latin word “suffragism,” meaning the right or privilege to vote. In the United States, it is commonly associated with the 19th- and early 20th-century voting rights movements.

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