Freedom
Freedom is an exhilarating feeling that everyone wants to have. In the past, freedom was not just granted to anyone and everyone. Freedom was either given or taken from people just because of something like their gender or race. Women, slaves, and many other people had to fight relentlessly before earning their rights. Keeping people from their earned rights because of race or gender is unfair; slaves, African Americans in the 1960s, and women all fought for their rights and it paid off.
A huge event in our history that earned freedom for slaves was The Civil War. The Civil War was a fight from within.” Nearly 620,000 men lost their lives fighting for their freedom during the war,”(“Civil War Casualties”). The Union Army wanted to abolish slavery and it’s evil ways, …show more content…
In the past, women were controlled by men. They could not own their own bank account, or own land, or divorce their husbands, and one of the biggest issues, they could not vote. Gender is not something that should hold people back from being equal with others. Women were even held back from being able to go far in their education or have a job above a man. As a woman looking forward to furthering my education and working hard for a job one day, I think it is an extreme injustice that they could have held back these rights to women in the past. Many women began to realize that they also deserved the right to vote so they decided to fight back. There were many women involved in the movement for women's rights including Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton. Through such determination, these women helped earn the right to vote. In 1920, women were granted the ability to vote. This moment in history makes me grateful that women in the past stood up for themselves. As I am now 18 and get to vote in the next election, I will fill out that ballot with gratitude and thankfulness towards the women who made it
Freedom is an exhilarating feeling that everyone wants to have. In the past, freedom was not just granted to anyone and everyone. Freedom was either given or taken from people just because of something like their gender or race. Women, slaves, and many other people had to fight relentlessly before earning their rights. Keeping people from their earned rights because of race or gender is unfair; slaves, African Americans in the 1960s, and women all fought for their rights and it paid off.
A huge event in our history that earned freedom for slaves was The Civil War. The Civil War was a fight from within.” Nearly 620,000 men lost their lives fighting for their freedom during the war,”(“Civil War Casualties”). The Union Army wanted to abolish slavery and it’s evil ways, …show more content…
In the past, women were controlled by men. They could not own their own bank account, or own land, or divorce their husbands, and one of the biggest issues, they could not vote. Gender is not something that should hold people back from being equal with others. Women were even held back from being able to go far in their education or have a job above a man. As a woman looking forward to furthering my education and working hard for a job one day, I think it is an extreme injustice that they could have held back these rights to women in the past. Many women began to realize that they also deserved the right to vote so they decided to fight back. There were many women involved in the movement for women's rights including Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton. Through such determination, these women helped earn the right to vote. In 1920, women were granted the ability to vote. This moment in history makes me grateful that women in the past stood up for themselves. As I am now 18 and get to vote in the next election, I will fill out that ballot with gratitude and thankfulness towards the women who made it