... and 19th amendments have all greatly affected and changed the lives of many Americans for different reasons. Each of these amendments has to due with giving people equal rights no matter what race or gender that they may be. These are all tremendous milestones in American history. First, the 13th amendment was passed in 1865 to end slavery. African Americans were no longer allowed to be considered as property. Instead, they became viewed as real people, and slavery was banned unless it was used as a form of punishment This amendment was passed because before and during the civil war, most northern citizens strongly stood against slavery. They thought it was unjust to make people work for long hours and to be treated unfairly. This amendment clearly and effectively signified that no American citizen could own slaves....
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...equal” (Stanton). As living things, men and women are equal, but we have given men more importance under the false impression that they do more for us. Yes, we have taken steps to make the women in our society as important and remembered as the men. One of these steps, Women’s Suffrage, has made a large impact on our close-minded world. The Women’s suffrage Movement was one of the most important and successful movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. It all started in 1848 when a bunch of suffragists came together at the first women’s rights gathering in Seneca Falls, New York....
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...The Empowering 19th Amendment by Chris Shively The 19th Amendment was not only an amendment that allowed women the right to vote, but was also a major milestone in the history of the United States itself. Leaders such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized many of the parades, protests, and demonstrations across the nation to bring attention to the issue. The suffragists, advocates of the voting rights for women, made several sacrifices and the eventual passage of the 19th Amendment resulted in progress to America, one of which is educating new American citizens on the importance of this amendment. The suffragist movement has a long history and included many sacrifices. Beginning in New York, with the Seneca Falls convention in 1848, women rallied for the right to vote. Twenty-one years later, few state constitutions allowed women the right to vote. However, women wanted it written in the U.S. Constitution. So in 1869, Anthony and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. Two years later, in 1871, a petition signed by Anthony, Stanton, along with four other suffragists, was sent to Congress asking that voting rights be given to women. The petition also asked that women be given the right to speak in Congress. The petition noted that, “Men are represented on the floor of Congress and so may be said to be heard there. Women are allowed no vote and therefore no representation cannot truly be heard except as Congress shall open its doors to...
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...was in Worcester, Massachusetts, with more than 1,000 participants. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed an organization which was called National Woman Suffrage Association. The first goal of the organization was to achieve voting rights for women by Congressional amendment to the Constitution. This implies that it was the time when women were started to talk a stand to their right. This shows the important of women suffrage movement because they impressed other women to fight for their...
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...Two weeks after the convention, some of the attendees met again in First Unitarian Church of Rochester, New York, to reaffirm the movement’s goals and resolved to hold more conventions to win equality for women (thoughtco.com. & history.com). Disappointingly, right as the Women’s Rights Movement begins to gather strength, the Civil War cut in front of it, stopping it altogether (history.com). After the Civil War, women’s rights advocates begin to pick up the rubble of the effort and when the 14th and 15th Amendment are added to the constitution, they saw this as an opportunity to fight for women’s citizenship and suffrage...
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...POS – 301 November 2, 2014 Professor Biddle My Rights and Freedoms As a citizen of the United States I do not appreciate the freedom and rights given. I have not thought about how fortunate I am to live in a country that allows freedom of speech, freedom of expression, or my favorite, freedom of religion. Throughout this assignment I will explain which freedom in the first amendment relates to me the most, discuss why the Bill of rights are important, and discuss the process for amending the Constitution. The freedom in the first amendment of the constitution relates to me the most would be Freedom of Religion. Freedom of Religion states that as an American I can practice ANY religion I want or I do not have to practice any religion at all. The reason freedom of religion relates to me most is because I am a strong believer in the idiom “to each his own”. I do not care if my friend is Jewish, Hindu, Christian, the list goes on. I think expressing one’s self is extremely important and religion is one of those ways. To me, what a person’s religion is does not determine if they are a good person or not. There are people that consider themselves “Jewish” or “Christian” but yet they are extremely mean and do not care about others. Freedom of religion allows for every single citizen of the United States to have a sense of freedom. We do not feel obligated to have a certain type of religion, which is better! The reason I say this is because if we are not forced to follow...
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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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...everything in between. With increasing standards and demands on them to be the one who keep’s the family grounded and together in a chaotic society that thinks none to highly of them or their rights as citizens. I chose to focus on women’s changing roles during the time period from 1865 through 1920 and then through 1920 to this present day. The reason I chose to focus on the women of our history is because this was a very unstable time in history, due to the changing status of minorities in the culture at this time due to the end of the Civil War and the impending revolution for women’s rights with the passage of the 19th amendment. Dating as far back as the early 1800's women’s roles were consistently being challenged and questioned, it was not so much the women’s rights marches of the 60's but it was the beginning of that revolution. During the early part of the 19th century women’s character was separated with four basic attributes: piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity. Even the foreign visitors to America during this period found fault in American male’s attitude towards women, they thought males treated women as inferiors and subjected women to double standards. "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being and legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage." This is according to a 1765 law established by Sir William Blackstone an English barrister, and American law followed this principle thereby the wife "belonged"...
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...Justifying the Bill of Rights Professor Maria Toy, J.D. LEG107 The amendments to the United States Constitution play an important role in the history, politics and law of our country. When the Bill of Rights was originally proposed to the First Federal Congress in 1789 by James Madison, the intent was for the amendments to be integrated into the original text of the Constitution. As we now know, Madison’s idea did not prevail and Congress decided the first ten amendments and the subsequent seventeen be appended (BYU Journal of Public Law [Volume 25], January 1, 2011). The amendments are an integral part of the Constitution, the framework of the incomparable American justice system that has great impact on the legal system and political climate of the United States. Each of the amendments was written either to overrule a Supreme Court decision, to force societal change, or to revise details of the existing Constitution. The Constitution is an evolving document that some believe is “a living constitution that was written so it could adapt to a changing nation” (Huey-Burns, 2010). Additionally, many of the modern day issues we face such as same-sex marriage, healthcare and insurance policy, and immigration reform, have deep constitutional roots. Amendments are crucial because they give us a mechanism to update and reflect changes in time and public opinion. The process of amending the Constitution fulfills a crucial part of the checks and balance system of our...
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...Anti-German sentiment also helped propel the national prohibition cause to greater heights due to the fact that most of the breweries in the 19th century were founded by German immigrants to the United States, and retained German names. Wartime hostility toward Germans gave prohibition a certain sense of patriotism and condemned those who opposed the implementation of prohibition laws as traitors. In addition, prohibiting the production of alcoholic beverages would save millions of bushels of grain and other resources that many believed should be devoted to the war effort. In December 1917, eight months after the United States declared war on the German Empire, Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, accomplishing nationwide Prohibition, which banned the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol. Yet, while WWI was undoubtedly the catalyst for national prohibition, the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect on January 1920, nearly two years after the end of...
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...Susan B. Anthony was a very influential woman in her time. She was determined to stand up for women's rights because she strongly believed that all people should be treated equally no matter the gender, race or religion. Susan was born in 1820 and died in the year 1906. She dedicated most of her time to giving speeches all over the country and organized different foundations to protect women's rights. When Susan started teaching in New York, she realized how unfairly women were being treated with respect to their wages. Men were getting payed four times the amount women did. Susan's first speech was at the Daughters of Temperance Supper where she spoke out about the temperance movement. In 1852, Susan ultimately decided to join the women's...
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...Susan B. Anthony was a very influential woman in her time. She was determined to stand up for women's rights because she strongly believed that all people should be treated equally no matter the gender, race or religion. Susan was born in 1820 and died in the year 1906. She dedicated most of her time to giving speeches all over the country and organized different foundations to protect women's rights. When Susan started teaching in New York, she realized how unfairly women were being treated with respect to their wages. Men were getting payed four times the amount women did. Susan's first speech was at the Daughters of Temperance supper where she spoke out about the temperance movement. In 1852, Susan ultimately decided to join the women's...
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...History of the United States I AMH 1010 CRN 10800, December 1, 2014 Wood, Gordon. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., New York, 1991 Gordon Wood describes the American Revolution as a journey from paternal colonialism to an egalitarian democracy. His contention is that the American Revolution does not seem to have the same kinds of causes that Revolutions usually display. There were no big social wrongs, no class conflict, no severe poverty, or gross inequitable distribution of wealth. Wood claims our revolution was not about independence as most history books claim but about the radical transformation of the American society. Monarchy In this section the author describes the structure of colonial America in the 1750s and 1760s. In colonial society, authority and liberty flowed from the structure of personal relationships. Society was held together by networks of personal loyalties, obligations and dependencies. In this hierarchical society, the elite or aristocrats ruled. The aristocrats (also called gentlemen) used their wealth and their hereditary advantages to keep the common people as dependents. The aristocrats lived a life of leisure which meant that they were not expected to labor. Their income was supposed to come from their landed estates. They used these landed estates to control the issuance of government offices and created laws that would keep their estates in the family. Most estates were passed on to...
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...describing the U.S. federal expansion of authority I will have three context that are the importance of the developments in the United States which are political structures, social structures, and Economic structures. U.S. Federal Government Expansion of Authority During the Civil War there was an expansion of federal power. The first major expansion of federal government refused to allow confederate states of america which is also known as secession. After the federal government got rid of secession of states from the union but right after the war the Reconstruction Era saw opportunities to impose radical changes upon defeated southern states. The federal government guaranteed civil rights to all races, rather than state and local authorities make such decision. The second major expansion was the Progressive Era. This started as a social movement to help improve the lives and general conditions of americans, the movement used the government to increase such changes. In 1901 new regulations inspired by progressive philosophy began to be implemented. Then Five years later the Hepburn Act authorized the federal government to control railroad rates, the pure food, drug act, the Meat Inspection Act and many more Acts. The progressive also had a victory that was well known as the 19th Amendment, which gave suffrage to women and the 16th Amendment, which made the federal government to plan a federal income tax. Then...
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...The Women’s Movement is a broad movement campaigning for women’s liberations and rights. Women did not have any rights whatsoever back then and they just wanted to be equal to men. So the women started a movement and fought for their rights as people to be able to do what the men were doing politically. “In the 18th and 19th centuries, American law was based upon English common law and the doctrine of coverture, which stated that a woman's legal rights were incorporated into those of her husband when she married, and she was not recognized as having rights and obligations distinct from those of her husband. One of the few legal advantages of marriage for a woman was that her husband was obligated to support her and be responsible for her debts.”...
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