Great women have fought for the 19th amendment that gives the American women the right to vote. Among those many women was Anna Howard Shaw. She came to America when she was four. Then at age twelve, her father sent her mother and siblings to live on a land in the northern part of Michigan. During that time, she became responsible for taking care of her family’s problems due to her mother’s mental and emotional suffrage. During the civil war, her sister died while giving birth and her brother was injured ad in need of medical care. When she was fifteen, Shaw had to become a school teacher to support her family financially. She was always interested in education. As a result, after the civil war, she moved to her married sister so she could
