America was built under a living document that needs to be updated continually. To become a contributing member of society; the law must give us the responsibility to deal with matters occurring in our own communities. The ability to exercise our voting rights is one of our greatest responsibilities and no one can be considered an equal citizen without it. Women’s suffrage is a right that derives from equal citizenship.…
They believed that women were, “…little more than a servant to her husband and children.” as Charlotte Perkins Gilman put it in the book Voices of Freedom edited by Eric Foner. There was the belief that women couldn’t make the correct decision on votes and that they were not capable of handling. Some people were even under the assumption that most women did not actually care about getting the right to vote. Not only was the topic of women’s suffrage a debate but so was the right for women to hold industrial jobs.…
An odd concept came about in the late nineteenth century and happened to be carried into both the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The peculiar postulation believed that women should be allowed to vote, or have suffrage. Through trials and tribulations over the course of half a century, women were finally granted legal access to the ballot. The rise of women suffrage then led to a culture that rebuked previous social and cultural implications placed on women; the new woman formed from this newfound independence is today known as a flapper girl. The radical notion of equal suffrage came about in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York where it was petitioned by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and then adopted as a platform.…
On August 18 1920, women could finally vote. No longer were they treated the same as children, the tender of their children and house, the cook, the cleaner. Liberty and freedom was granted to what was perceived as the ‘fairer sex’. On that date, the 19th Amendment passed. But what was the long road to that amendment?…
The Women’s Suffrage began even before the Civil War. They wanted more rights and powers to determine their life, and the power to vote was the first step to help they achieve that goal. Such women thought that by granting the voting right, they could vote for their favorite laws and develop the nation the way they hoped. However, for a long time, it didn’t receive any public recognition since slavery was the hottest issue at the time and people were too into it. After the Civil War, the situation got better, yet most women didn’t actively participate since it was considered immoral at the time to join such organizations.…
It was back in 1848, women like Elizabeth Stanton were pleading for 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.…
Women in America during a time of disfranchisement generally believed that voting rights were necessary in order to help enact social and political reforms within society. Documents A,E, G reflect the desire for women to be able to have the right to vote through women’s desire to improve public conditions in society, helping to raise their children, and enacting labor laws that would help women earn better wages and improve working hours. Many women during the progressive era fought for many social reforms within their society. Most of the time it was very difficult to pass such reform proposals through legislation which ultimately resulted in having their husbands vote for them.…
On May 10th, 1866, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony establish the American Equal Rights Association. On July 28, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment was approved and women aren’t given the right to vote. It also grants citizenship to male African Americans, but not to women. Two very important women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony strongly disapprove the amendment since it specifies citizens as “male.” In May 1869,…
The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920 and gave the women of the United States the right to vote. The bill was introduced in the 1870 's to congress by a woman named Susan B. Anthony and Senator Aaron A. Sargent, but it would take years of lobbying by several organizations and activists for it to gain support of both the American public and the federal government. This fight for equality was known as the Woman 's suffrage movement, which was a breakaway from a larger one that concentrated on many goals for American women. It was the largest reform movement during America 's Progressive era. The first gathering devoted to achieving equal rights for women was held in New York and called the Seneca Convention of 1848.…
Women’s Suffrage After the American Revolution, women had the right to vote in New Jersey from 1790 to 1807 years, taking into account their financial situation. In 1807, these women's rights were denied. When Congress discussed 15th Amendment (the right to vote regardless of color, race or prior condition of servitude), an attempt was made to distribute it and to women, but this attempt was’t successful.…
According to document four (an unnamed writer protests against women’s right to vote) an unnamed writer wrote in 1802 that women are easily influenced, unskilled in politics, unacquainted with the all of the real merits of the candidates, and are almost always under care of a brother or father. These were the reasons given for women not being allowed to vote, he goes as far to say that they are incompatible with the duties of a real elector, implying that a women couldn’t do that job. In 1848 women started to protest for the right to vote. Women did not get the right to vote until…
The 19th Amendment: From Seneca Falls To Ratification Americans have long fought for equal rights, and they continue to fight for them today. Despite America’s founding idea of democracy, only white Protestant male who owned property could actually vote. As voting rights evolved, all white males gained the right to vote without discrimination towards age or social status. Even with the evolution of voting rights, women remained barred from the ballot. Though the Suffrage Movement started as a women’s social movement, it evolved into a driving force that held the power to ratify a nineteenth constitutional amendment.…
In the early 1800’s women were considered weaker than men, women had no rights and were looked as second-class citizens. Even though society thought of women as second-class; women had a lot of obligations at home, they were expected to clean, cook and take care of the family. After women got married they were denied many rights, such as, the right to sign a contract, own their own property and to keep their own wages. Unlike today, where we have so many successful educated women, in the early 1800’s women were not allowed to pursue education. All women were not allowed to vote, and finally after many years of emotional political activity, women won the right to vote.…
Many women didn 't actually want to vote they still thought that they couldn 't mix in with the roles of a man. Another law that was passed was the Cable Act in 1922, this act allowed women in the U.S to be independent of their husband. Women in the 20s also had the right to work but like always they could work in feminine positions. Like we know to this day some of the jobs were like being a secretary or being a phone operator.…
The movement didn’t become serious until after 1870, when the 15th amendment gave black men voting rights. In that same year, her and a group of women wrote a six-volume series on the history of the women’s suffrage movement. It appeared later in 1881. According to the article, American Government, In1872, Susan registered and voted in Rochester but was charged with a $100 fee which she refuse to pay. The charges were later dropped because of the drama that it brought.…