...The 19th amendment was passed on August 18,1920.This amendment granted women the right to vote.Prior to this new reformation,women were seen as inferior and were limited to being housewives and focusing more on motherhood.Women were generally frowned upon if they tried to attain higher occupations such as: doctors, lawyers, and teachers.Needless to say, during these times women were deprived of many privileges that men had naturally;one of these depravities was the right to vote.Thanks to the 19th amendment,this is no longer. The 19th amendment has left a major imprint in American history.Though victorious,it was not an easy fight to gain this amendment.It was a fight of 70 years starting with women such as: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth...
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...The 19th amendment, also known as the Woman Suffrage Act, was passed in 1920, and prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote because of their sex. The fight for amending the 19th amendment can date back almost a century before it was actually passed. In the early 1800s small reform groups were born and fought for women’s rights (History.com). In 1869, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association with a goal of amending a federal constitutional amendment that would grant women the right to vote. That same year, abolitionists named Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell founded the American Woman Suffrage Association (History.com). There are many benefits to this amendment. Once...
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...Austin Zimmerman All through United States History, laws and amendments have been passed to benefit the American society and citizens socially, politically and economically. These laws and amendments often have a positive affect on society. Two major laws and amendments that impacted American Society were the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and the 19th amendment giving woman rights. The United States industries were all growing in the late 1800’s and this caused the way food was produced to change. Before the industrial revolution most American’s were farming and growing their own food. If they didn’t grow their own then they would get it from a neighbor or small town store. Because it wasn’t easy to preserve food it was generally eaten soon after the animals were slaughtered or the food was harvested. However, with large monopolies forming they began to produce mass amounts of food to sell to the public. With the growth of cities, food had to be sent long distances to get the people in the cities. Food manufactures needed to come up with a way to preserve this food while it is on the long route to get to the cities. They began to hire chemists to find ways to preserve the food, because there were not many laws that dealt with the distribution and preparation of food products they were able to put preservatives in the food. However, if the meat spoiled they would also put a dye in it to make the color back to normal and would sell the spoiled meat. The meat packing industry...
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...Directions: Complete the following outline in preparation for writing your research paper. Be sure to include proper MLA in-text citation for all your evidence (quotes & paraphrasing). I. Introduction paragraph A. Broad statement: Due to many industrial and social changes during the early 19th century, many women were involved in social advocacy efforts, which eventually led them to advocate for their own right to vote and take part in government agencies. B. Introduction to specific topic and text: The women’s movement of the 1920’s worked to grant women the right to vote nationally, thereby allowing women more political equality. C. Three sub-topic points for your topic 1. Women as public advocates 2. The beginning of the women’s movement 3. The passage of the 19th Amendment II. Sub-Topic 1 A. Topic sentence: Wanting to protect the ideals and morality of the “home”, many women were drawn to social advocacy in order to help correct the deficiencies in the changing 19th century. 1. Introduction to information: Women were very active helping disenfranchised groups who were severely negatively affected by the sweeping social changes in the early 19th century. 2. Evidence: (Quote/paraphrase): Women worked to “improve…the conditions of child workers, the mentally ill, those imprisoned, and the slaves…It was the result of women’s participation in the abolition movement…that women were compelled to address their own political inequality” (Bryant). i. Analysis...
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...developed and created better ways of expanding and growing businesses. Finally, prominent businessmen that ruled the government were controlled by the creation of laws and better rules and regulations. The first major aspects of industrialization that influenced U.S. society was the passing of the thirteenth amendment which outlawed slavery endlessly for African Americans. Not only was this law passed in the south. The law was passed throughout the land. This allowed African American families to gain stability. The second major aspect was that the U.S. economy was reaping the benefits of railroads. The continuous growth of railroads can also be contributed to Leland Stanford who developed the railroad system in California and the whole West readily available. (Schultz, Kevin M., 2014). The third major aspect was the political issue of Women’s voting rights. Ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution on Aug. 18, 1920, finally passed to give women the right to vote. The amendment stated that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." The text of the amendment was drafted by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founders of the National Woman Suffrage Movement. (Harvey, H., 2011, May 16). The first group...
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...we enjoy in the 21st century. Rights that were denied women in the US in the 1800s such as the right to vote, the right to retain ownership of her property upon marriage, and competent medical treatment. Women’s right to vote was a long, difficult battle. Early leaders of women’s rights like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony began their work as abolitionist with the intention of stopping slavery and obtaining basic rights for the Negros. Likewise, they began to realize how few rights women actually had and decided to take on the challenge to change things; “This growing understanding of the condition of women led to the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1884.”(Gianoulis). Sadly, just because the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified by congress did not mean it was accepted with open arms by all states. In 1869, in a groundbreaking move, Wyoming became the first state to allow women over twenty-one the right to vote. As related in...
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...George Bush is still the decided president. Then what is democracy, where did it come from, is our current democratic society a progression or is it a regression of democracy’s evolution? America has a government decided by the population of America; at least that is of the idea of a democratic society. Let us then compare American democracy to where democracy was created. The reason why everyone votes is to make a unanimous decision of who will become the leaders of a country. Democracy is just that, a government where the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation. Joseph states in his book Homo Sapience: “Senates successfully administered a nation for the benefit of the people with the mandate that was delegated out by the residents for a limited term”. This creation of democracy originated in ancient Greece. The Greek word for democracy, demokratia, literally translates into “power by the people” (Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World, Revised...
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...The first section in the 14th Amendment proclaims that people who are born in the United States are citizens. It has three important clauses: (1) privileges and immunities clause, (2) due process clause, and (3) equal protection clause. This amendment protects citizens and their rights from federal government. It was later applied to all states. The fifth section allows Congress to enforce this amendment when appropriate (Greenberg, 530). It was perceived to be needed because of the unfair treatment on citizens that did not have the appearance of a typical American citizen. At the time, it was intended to protect African Americans from discrimination, although it was eventually applied to other minorities as well. The 14th Amendment affected...
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...1913, Woodrow Wilson arrived in Washington for his inauguration as president of the United States. But upon arrival, he was dismayed to find there was no crowd to greet him. People gave up meeting the president in order to observe a bigger spectacle down on Pennsylvania Avenue, a woman suffrage parade. Five thousand women, sporting purple, violet, and gold banners, had united under the leadership of suffragist Alice Paul to march through Washington in demand of their right to vote. Shouted and jeered at as they processed, these women braved the hostile crowd while gaining significant publicity for their cause. [pic][pic] The movement of women into the public and political spheres had been gaining in momentum and popularity since the mid-19th century. Women demanded suffrage as early as 1848. The Seneca Falls convention brought together 200 women and 40 men, including feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, to make the claim for full citizenship. The delegates believed women to be citizens not limited in any way to their roles as wives or mothers. In the language of the founding fathers, they wrote, "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal." They rejected Victorian domesticity and its separation of women and men into private and public spheres, respectively. It was at Seneca Falls that the suffrage movement first began. Women entered into public life more and more in the years after the convention. In part this was linked with...
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...(College for America, n.d.b). Freedom of Assembly is when a group of people gathers together in an even-tempered manner for legal discussion. Freedom of Petition is when a request is signed by several people to overturn or appeal to authority for a specific cause. Both are protected under this amendment and cannot be a crime as long as the as they are nonviolent. Rights and responsibility work together in being a privilege and being held accountable a U.S. Citizen. Rights are benefits granted by governing bodies. Responsibilities are our duty or obligation as a citizen. Some of the responsibilities are lawfully required of all citizens but all are important to protect one that is not under control, act as one chooses and to keep American a flourishing democracy. (College for America, n.d.d). Defined below is a list of rights and responsibilities that all citizens should carry out and honor. Rights Responsibilities “Freedom to express yourself”. (College for America,...
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...American imperialism in the late 19th century and early 20th century was beneficial and necessary for the country. American imperialism was beneficial to many countries, along with America itself. It helped America with trade, benefited other nations, and helped other countries with economic advancements, and protection. American imperialism helped America with trade, because according to the map in Document C, many of America’s annexations and acquisitions were located in the Pacific. This was for both oil, and trade purposes. Because the islands were in the Pacific, and America had access to islands like the Philippines, trade was increased with Asia (specifically China). Many islands like Hawaii were also beneficial due to their abilities...
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...America that liberty would only be available to those that qualified. Prior to the 1900’s most of America’s population did not enjoy the full blessings of American Liberty. There were many factors during the 19th century that contributed to being afforded and denied American Liberty. While it was easier for white men with wealth and property to exercise full liberty, the color of ones skin, race, or sex was a hindrance to others wanting to enjoy the benefits of full liberty. During the 19th century, the United States was a “white man’s government.” Whites mainly associated liberty with ownership of property. Therefore, if one owned property, they were entitled to enjoy the benefits of liberty. However, the only persons that owned property prior to reconstruction were white wealthy men. White men in America during reconstruction wanted to keep the “privilege” of liberty to themselves. White men during reconstruction also wanted to keep the right to vote to themselves. According to J. Morgan Kousser “A man with a ballot in his hand is the master of the situation. He defines all his other rights. What is not already given him, he takes…The ballot is opportunity, education, fair play, right to office and elbow-room.” This freedom was one that the white men during the 19th century relished. The opportunity to vote showed status, status which, white American men did not want to share with those inferior to them. African Americans...
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...equal citizens, two organizations were formed; The National Woman Suffrage Association(NWSA) which was led by Karrie Chapman Katt, founded by Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in 1869 and the Bostonbased American Woman Suffrage Association(AWSA), led by Julia Ward Howe and Lucy Stone. The NWSA was aiming towards passing a constitutional amendment that would provide them the right to vote whereas the AWSA reckoned that the preeminent strategy for getting woman the right to vote was to convince state governments first. The two different groups realized that they both just wanted the right to vote and that by splitting up it was making themselves weak so they decided to combine and create the National American Woman Suffrage Association or NAWSA. In 1915 Carrie Chapman Catt became the NAWSA leader who was trying to push the nation into getting woman the right to vote. Many people didn’t approve of what the woman were doing, and that woman were below men so they shouldn’t vote. These people were called antisuffragists and a lot of them were politicians who repudiated this. If woman got the right to vote it would benefit woman of course but it would also benefit society and the government. Woman think about the world and problems all of the time, and they think on how can we not only make the problem that’s going on in the world better but, how can we solve it. This would make society more open to different options and more disentangling of problems rather than just making them restored....
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...In 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment was drafted by Alice Paul, who believed that the amendment was the appropriate follow-up to the 19th Amendment in guaranteeing equal rights for all. The ERA was aimed at the large number of state laws that restricted women’s jury service, controlling property, and guardianship rights over their children, among others. However, the ERA did not get passed in the United States Congress until 1972, forty-nine years later. It was quickly sent to the states for ratification. Initially, the amendment was met with great support and was approved by 30 out of the needed 38 state legislators within the first year. Because Congress put a seven-year deadline on the ratification process, the ERA needed to be approved three-fourths of the states by March 22, 1979. The amendment seemed promising as federal politicians and a majority of the public showed support (Stidolph). In Oklahoma, the ERA received following from many organizations such as the American Bar Association, Church Women United, and the American Association of University Women. The amendment passed in the Oklahoma Senate with a voice vote. However, there was growing controversy...
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...Bill of Rights & Amendments Paper Intro The United States is a country that was founded on the principle of freedom; it took the Bill of Rights to be added to the Constitution to guarantee citizens freedom. The Bill of Rights consists of the first ten amendments in the constitution; a document that outlines how the new American government would be created and operated. The Constitution was ratified in 1788 which was the start of protecting the interests of each citizen, two years later the Bill of Rights was proposed by congress and went into effect in 1791. It was designed to prevent the government from taking total power over citizens and to provide them with legal defenses. This essay will discuss the understanding of how amendments become apart of the constitution and how it adopted the Bill of Rights. As well as the changes in society that led to amendments XIII-XV that became part of the constitution. The effects of the Bill of Rights to this country have been beneficial; they lay down the blueprint for freedom by allowing citizens a voice. The failure of the Articles of Confederation was what led to the Constitution; The Articles had a weak national government with no president, or judicial branch. Hence, this led to the Constitution, which showed the three branches of government legislative, executive and judicial; it describes the power of each branch. It was set up by our forefathers in order to change it if necessary. It tells the relationship of the federal...
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