Analysis Of The Women's Suffrage Movement

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The freedoms that were gain due to the women suffrage movement because the women were able to vote,work,own land, and earned the right to choice what to say to there husband because when the women didn't earned their rights they had to listen to there husband.But the women suffered because they were beaten put in prison and risked there life.They also went on strike such as Hungary strikes.Made freedom leagues and National Suffrage Associations. Put there life in jeopardy especially when they went on Hungary strikes. The guards made the women suffragettes that work in workhouses and were imprisoned went thought brutal force feeding they were made to eat.Force-feeding was associated with those who was held in asylums and who could not feed

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