Suffrage

influence our government today. One example of the success of progressive ideas is women’s rights. After 70 years of campaigning, the movement towards women’s suffrage was finally gaining real support in government. Under Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, women once again rose against the government Carrie Chapman Catt lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association through a long and exhausting campaign towards reform, eventually leading to the ratification of Women’s voting rights in 1920.…

Women used many different methods to earn the right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. They used 3 methods to get the right to vote, these reasons are: The first method was a parade. This parade took place in Washington DC during president Wilson's inauguration. During this time people on the streets were drinking and it turned violent. The crowds attacked the women, they yelled at them and even threw bottles at them. The police did absolutely nothing to help the women. Afterwards, there…

and it opens the door to influence government policies. By casting her ballot, Anthony was casting forth the suppressed will of an entire nation and bringing the issue of women’s suffrage to national spotlight. Through her adamant stance and peaceful protest, Susan B. Anthony pioneered efforts for the women’s suffrage movement and paved the path for the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. Without her effort, women may have never gotten the rights they deserved. Leafing…

encouraging others to vote. Susan B. Anthony and other activists such as Alice Paul would also be a part of this era. The women 's right 's movement educated and held protests in hopes of creating public awareness for the equality and liberation. Suffrage was also very helpful in educating factory workers about their rights and how to fight for them. These were essential elements of the Progressive era. In 1920 the 19th Amendment was ratified granting American women the right to vote. Forever…

and “Alice Paul and the Struggles for Women's Suffrage” two most commonly recognized historical events in which equality was fought for were the fight for women’s suffrage and the fight for equality of African Americans. According to the article,”Alice Paul and the Struggles for Women's Suffrage” Alice Paul was a civil rights activist from New Jersey who helped to change the laws that stopped women from voting during the fight for women’s suffrage. Despite how hard she and so many other…

Women's suffrage was fought for in different and equally effective ways. Susan B. Anthony, the founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association, fought for the right to vote through a constitutional amendment. The American Woman Suffrage Association fought for the right to vote on a state by state basis. The AWSA’s method produced results quicker, with Wyoming giving women the right to vote in 1869, however, ultimately suffrage was granted through a constitutional amendment…

their right to vote. Stanton was a demagogue for the rights of women. All women, at the time, were all denied the essential right to be a part of the bigger picture and to be equal. Woman suffrage was the single largest enfranchisement and extension of democratic rights in our nation’s history. Women’s Suffrage is one of the most important American Political movements. It was the nineteenth-century women’s rights movement. Women were to only be devoted to home life and raising children, if they…

Oklahoma women opposing to women’s suffrage organized in an anti-suffrage group known as the Oklahoma Anti-Suffrage League or the Oklahoman Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Antisuffrage associations alleged that women’s suffrage would not solve the problems of women and society, and claimed that women’s societal roles must not be others than the ones related to the traditional view of womanhood such as piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. Excerpted from:…

Emmeline Pankhurst enforced an argument, where women suffrage has reached a substantial point where she will speak out for women to have rights. She covers herself how women have very little to no freedom. Secondary she uses outside sources to show that revolution will be possible with historical events from the past, this should blow a very powerful message because the use of historical events can satisfy one side’s defense. She included the differences between freedom men have compared to…

Women used many different methods to earn the right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. One method was a parade in Washington D.C. when the president arrived. There were hundreds of women who held up signs and banners to catch the eyes of men and women along the streets. Soon they got large crowds filled with men drinking which resulted in yelling and bottles being thrown around. After, the crowds attacked and left many women in the hospital. But, all of this chaos made the front pages…