The Women’s Suffrage Movement was a huge part in history. “While the fourteenth amendment was being formulated in 1806, women’s rights leaders submitted thousands of signatures to Congress to see that the fourteenth amendment recognized their long standing claim to political rights and was truly democratic in its provisions” (Rogers 71). The second section of the fourteenth amendment, the one that addressed voting explicitly, used the term “male citizens” to designate the body of the voters whose representation would be reduced in case southern states disfranchised African Americans. The amendment made reference to sex only to exclude women (Rogers 71). Women were not even counted as citizens (Riley 68). Women were seen as the “weaker sex” …show more content…
An anonymous publication, Women’s Rights and Duties of 1840, hinted at the risk that corrupt politicians might try to secure ‘female parties’ to support them over sex-specific issues and might succeed in winning the allegiance, by manipulation, of ‘the worst part of the sex’ (Riley 71). Elections actively showed that American government can be an extension of the people’s will (Rogers 5). The fact that the women’s rights movement began and attracted its greatest successes in the norther part of the United States has led many historians to correlate feminism with abolitionism (Weinberg 92). The Nineteenth Amendment was signed on August 26th, 1920, that was a turn for women earning their chances to vote. The smallest, most revolutionary group, led by Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party saw the suffrage victory as the first step in the fight to win fully equality for women (Brown 50). “Leaders of the women’s suffrage movement hoped that the ratification of the nineteenth amendment in 1920 would give women a clear voice in the political …show more content…
She was born into the first family of Johnstown, New York on November 12th, 1815. She was the seventh of nine children. Elizabeth’s father favored her brother more than the girls, which led to her saying “I will try to be all my brother was.” She resolved to do everything she could do “manly” (Griffith 8). When Elizabeth won a Greek Prize, her father was still upset that she was not a boy (Griffith 9). Elizabeth went to Peterboro in the late 1830’s, where she met male and female abolitionist agents, runaway slaves, Oneida Indians, members of the old Dutch aristocracy, temperance advocates, politicians, and reformers of every kind and conviction (Griffith 25). Her visits there made her receptive to the reform spirit. She was challenged to think about issues that were never discussed in her own home, and she thrived on the arguments and exchanges of ideas (Griffith 25). When Elizabeth tried to marry, she discovered married women lost their legal individuality and became subordinate to their husbands (Griffith 31). Elizabeth met and became fond of Mr. Garrison, who advocated women’s rights within society. She went to the first international convention, which was a timid affair. It failed to reach agreement on any of its goals. It is remembered primarily because it raised the question that would provoke a century and move of women’s rights activity in America. It was significant in