Suffrage is the right or exercise of the right to vote. The right to vote has been considered a right, a privilege or even a duty. The right to vote was first proposed as a federal amendment in 1868, women's right to vote struggled for many years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment which gave women the right to vote in 1920. The demand for American women's liberation was first formed 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 at the federal level and push 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 led by the four women finally united in 1890 as the National American Woman Suffrage Association.