...The Nineteenth Amendment allowed the right for women to vote in America. This occurred due to an extensive period on the war for women’s rights. Women’s rights to vote completely changed the culture of America because it linked the population of women together and took the U.S. by storm, although some may say it didn’t affect culture because not many people were injured in the war for women’s rights, it is still one of the most culturally changing event in history. The women that started the fight for the right to vote in the United States of America were Anne Hutchington and Abigail Adams. Anne settled in Massachusetts with her family in 1634 and started to raise the issue of women’s rights in her colony. After gaining many followers she was banished from...
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...Women suffrage in America came at a time when the nation was deeply plunged in late 1800s. Passionate suffragists; Elizabeth Cady and Susan Anthony came out strongly to form the National Woman Suffrage Association to champion for the right of women to vote and hold public office in the late nineteenth century. Though women were oppressed of their rights to vote and shut out of what was considered male dominated white collar offices, they have made great strides in various fields in the recent years and have rose to high positions of power. From the first pioneers who engineered the Nineteenth Amendment of the American Constitution thereby by granting their fellow women the right to vote and equal opportunity for pursuit of high office, women have generally made tremendous steps in ensuring change in various field from politics, office jobs, what are considered manly jobs like masonry by male chauvinists to law professions and attaining high offices in the Judicial System. One instance where women acknowledge triumph in their pursuit in suffrage is United States Supreme Court appointing the first woman- Sandra Day O’Connor as the first woman justice in 1981. This proved their cause for equality was not all a matter of fighting a losing battle, they were making great impacts and strides in championing for the rights of women which is envisioned in future appointments of other women into the law profession. In eighteen seventy three (1873), Susan B. Anthony one of the sitting...
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...Women in North America didn’t always have the freedom they had today. In 1920, American women were finally given the right to vote (Weatherford). In Canada, the Quebecoises were the last to be given the right to vote in 1940 (Strong-Boag). Women struggled for a centuries to get the same rights as men. This is called the woman suffrage movement. In the 19th century, Canadian women were frustrated: “ women were no longer willing or able to accept domestic life as their only legitimate concern.” (Cook, 10). With that being mentioned, for a typical north american woman their job was to cook, clean and organize their household. It was rare for an individual to be “educated and reasonably well-paid” (Cook, 11). Those who did have professional jobs...
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...During the late 1910’s, women did not yet have the right to vote, but suffragettes, like Alice Paul, began working toward a better America for women. During these trying years, activists for women’s rights endured numerous hardships and public ridicule. Slanderous propaganda suggested that women were communists. Some were tortured. Still, others lost their lives in the struggle. Few people understand the sacrifice made by these women, a sacrifice that ensured future generations of women would have a voice that was heard. Although women's suffrage in America was a terrible experience due to events such as unfair imprisonments, poor treatment and unnecessary suffering, the outcome was tremendous, resulting not only in their right...
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...United States of America has always been on the forefront in the fight for gender parity,but it beats logic that despite of being an instrument for change no woman has made it to ovalhouse. Among the many people who keep a keen eye on the United States of America developments in the fight for woman right,i still can't seem to understand the reason why they have not been able demonstrate this gender parity in their on backyard. After a thorough annalysis of various presidential races in the United States of America i have come to some findings as to why the states has never had a female president. Until 1920 the United States of America did not allow the women folk to vote. This has had a very negative effect on the voting behaviour of the women in United States , since it is soo difficult to get such women to vote when the historical society has made it...
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...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 us in person...
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...Susan Brownell Anthony One of the things that makes America to the country it is today is democracy. Without Susan Brownell Anthony though, democracy would not be possible. Susan B. Anthony spent her whole life to the women’s suffrage movement, the movement that fought for the women’s right to vote. Without her women would probably not have the right to vote until way later and if women do not have the right to vote, it would not be a democracy. Early Life Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams Massachusetts (Susan B. Anthony Biography.). Her fathers name is Daniel Anthony and her mother’s name is Lucy Read and out of eight children she was the second oldest (McPherson). Her family was part of a religious group called...
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...persons who faced injustice and inequality in America. The United States of America was said to be the land of opportunity and prosperity, but opportunity and prosperity for whom? Terms and conditions were not stipulated upon living in or relocating to 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...
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...disappointments, and internal disagreements, throughout its history, the right to vote given, then taken away, many times before it became enshrined in the United States Constitution. Through ratification by 36 states of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, women finally had the same rights as men, the right to be considered citizens and vote, the right to be considered equal to men. This struggle for equality and voting rights we discuss in this paper. Women’s Suffrage Movement Women’s Suffrage in America began in 1637 when Anne Hutchinson dared to defy church leaders, with her thoughts on religion. This contemptuous display of women’s rights at a time when women were considered the property of men landed Anne, before a tribunal of men. They convicted her of ‘sedition’ and expelled her from Massachusetts’s colony. Mary Dyer, having been the only person to stand up for Anne during her trial, was also expelled a few months later from the colony, along with her husband William. In 1652 Mary Dyer visited England for five years and during that time she joined the Society of Friends, the Quaker religion founded by George Fox. Returning to New England, Dyer headed back to the Massachusetts’s Bay colony, to preach her newfound religion. Boston at the time had outlawed Quakers and in 1660, Governor John Endicott had her hanged for her religious beliefs (Kowalski, 2003, p. 33). The Women’s Suffrage Movement was starting in America. It was 1840, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her husband Henry...
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...The Women of Today are Thankful for the Women of Our Past Student Name HIST 204 Naomi Rendina September 3, 2012 The Women of Today are Thankful for the Women of Our Past The American Women started out as the basic homemaker since coming to the New World. They were seen as nothing but a person that should stay home with the children, tend to the land and their husbands. As the world began to change, so did the view point and the rights of women. This change did not happen overnight and it was not an easy battle. The women of our past paved the road so that the women today can play a major role in the military, politics and on the home front of America. The first battle for women’s rights came in the mid to late 1800’s, prior to the Civil War at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. The movement came to a sudden halt, just as it started to begin, due to the Civil War. In 1869 the proposed 15th Amendment, which gave black men the right to vote, fueled the women’s right movement even more (Bowles 2011). Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton played a major role in the early part of this movement. In May 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; an organization made up primarily of women. Their object was to secure an amendment to the Constitution in favor of women's suffrage, and they opposed passage of the Fifteenth Amendment unless it was changed to guarantee to women the right to vote...
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...WEEK 10: The Second Great Awakening: religious life in Antebellum America/The Seneca Falls Convention and Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement READINGS: Mary Kupiec Cayton, “The Expanding World of Jacob Norton: Reading, Revivalism, and the Construction of a ‘Second Great Awakening’ in New England, 1787-1804,” Journal of the Early Republic 26, No. 2 (Summer 2006): 221-48; Alison M. Parker, “The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848: A Pivotal Moment in Nineteenth-Century America” (Review of Sally G. McMillen’s Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Woman’s Rights Movement), Reviews in American History 36, No. 3 (September 2008): 341-48. ASSIGNMENT: short commentary 1) Watch Episode 2, “A New Eden,” of the PBS Series God in America and answer the...
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...Women's suffrage and its impact on America: In this era, women have spearheaded a remarkable transformation in America, reshaping it from a male-dominated landscape. Today, young girls can envision themselves in careers ranging from doctors to mechanics, liberated from the shackles of traditional domestic roles. Women have shattered glass ceilings, seamlessly juggling roles as mothers and celebrities. But how did this profound change come to fruition, you may wonder? The tireless efforts of the women's suffrage movement and the indomitable spirit of fearless women are the architects of this new reality. The women's suffrage movement was not merely a political stance, but a much needed call for the recognition of women's rights, advocating for their equal participation in society....
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...easily achieved. From as early as the 1800s, women used peaceful, nonviolent tactics to fight for the right of women to vote. During the trying time of the 1910s, women stood confidently in the face of adversity, and went to extremes to push for the passing of the 19th Amendment. The fight for women’s suffrage began in 1848, at the Seneca Falls Convention. The orginal organization was know as the National Women’s Party, or NWP. Another organization by the name “American Women’s Suffrage Association” was created later in time, and the two eventually joined together to create NAWSA. The organization began state-by-state campaigns, educating the nation about women’s suffrage. Alice Paul was a played a key role in the right for women’s suffrage, up until her death in 1977. Paul raised her own money for the cause, which showed that NAWSA didn’t fully support the amendment. When jailed, Paul went on a hunger strike, which quicked gained media attention. Paul was willling to go to the extreme to gain attention for her cause Alice Paul and other supporters picketed Wilson during wartime, which showed their rellisance and willpower....
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...something, but right now all she wanted to be is ignored, not noticed. She had about 2 minutes before she must tell her answer to the Congress. The answer that everyone was fighting to convince her to change. Constantly telling her, “It will be better for your career,” “Just say Yes, you don’t want the whole country against you,” how can she say yes when the entire time she was running her campaign, she was focused on bringing men back from the war, not to it. The country was watching her. Wellington advised her to say “yes”, the person she has turned to every time she needed help, was telling her to turn her...
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...Throughout the speech entitled “Women's Rights To Suffrage” given by Susan B Anthony, a renowned activist for women rights, she argues that denying women the right to vote violates the United States Constitution. She constantly makes a deductive argument in that she connects the word people to women. Within the Constitution it states “We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” She draws attention to the word people and illustrates that women, although still people,...
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