Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

From 1848 to 1920 thousands of women in the United States fought to attain the same civil and political status as men, including the all important right to vote.They had a lot working against them victorian era scientists argued that women were by nature inferior to men, even claiming that the shape and size of female skulls were evidence of their weaker brainpower. Sadly early women's rights activists such as elizabeth cady stanton and susan b anthony would die before they could see their end…

The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States pioneered throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, attempting to gain equal rights, particularly the right to vote, eventually contributing to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The amendment was passed due to the female measures taken to gain small steps towards gender equality. These female measures were mainly taken by the National Women’s Party, who encouraged citizens to vote against…

changes occurred in the 1920s for women regarding politics, labor, and appearance. A major event for women during the 1920s was the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment. On August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified; this gave women to right to vote (“19th Amendment”). Tennessee was the deciding factor on the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Harry Burns cast the final vote that granted women voting rights.…

that was an uncompromising differences between the freedom, race, and slave over the power of the government to forbid slavery in the territories that had not yet become states, there are many movements had stated. For example, fighting about the passage of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and nineteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, struggles to secure civic protection of the rights, American civil rights movement, African-American civil rights movement, and women’s right movement. Susan B.…

Kentucky are states that permanently ban all felons from voting. Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Nevada are states that permanently ban some felons from voting; the ones who convicted- moral turpitude, second-felony convictions, treason, and election-related offenses. Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington are states…

the consumption and production since about the early eighteen hundreds. Throughout the early nineteenth century, residents of the United States became certain that many citizens were living in an immoral methodology. This immoral living was due on account of the discovery of fermentation; opponents of alcohol have attempted to eliminate its consumption for centuries (Rumbarger). Residents of the United States believed Americans would no longer be blessed and that ungodly and unscrupulous people…

Ninety five years ago, women gained the right to vote in the United States (Sprague). The ongoing fight for suffrage lasted nearly one hundred years before they were granted this right, with many of them risking everything from their social reputation to their lives for the belief of equality amongst genders. Women such as Harriot Stanton Blatch and Alice Paul, who protested at the White House for eighteen months straight after President Woodrow Wilson denied them support of the right to vote…

.In 1971, women’s activist Judy Brady wrote the legendary feminist piece “I Want a Wife.” The essay looks at women through the eyes of married men and their seemingly endless expectations of their wives. When the essay was written, it was “first delivered aloud in San Francisco on Aug 26, 1970. Judy (Syfers) Brady read the piece at a rally celebrating the 50th anniversary of women’s right to vote in the U.S., obtained in 1920,” (Napikoski, Linda). Many men of the time dismissed the essay, but…

Feminism - We women and man are equal ABSTRACT: We have lived in a male dominated society for more than 11 years since 2000. During these 11 years, we female have never ever stopped fighting for our own rights, no matter it’s the voting right or the working right. Kate Chopin – the forerunner of the feminist authors, started her fight for female’s rights from the early in the 19th century. In an era when most of the people don’t even have the idea of gender equality. “The story of an hour”…

The 19th Amendment of the United States Constitution, which granted women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920. The suffrage movement the lead to this amendments ratification, was one of the greatest steps towards equality for all women in our government. However equality in society and in the workplace still have not been fully achieved. Feminist movements over the years and an overall change in our culture since then, have allowed for a greater social equality for women; however,…