Essay On The 19th Amendment

The nineteenth amendment is to ensure women their right to vote. The struggle for victory took decades of protest and anger. Starting in the mid-nineteenth century, generations and generations of women’s suffrage supporters lobbied, lectured, wrote, marched, paraded, went on strike, organized, petitioned, picketed, held silent vigils, and practiced civil disobedience to quickly advance the United States of America’s constitution and obtain the right to vote. Many original supporters had passed before they could see final victory in 1920. Female citizens of the United States of America did not share the same rights as its male citizens when it was first founded, and those who opposed the rights of women were more than often violent, and would jail, abuse, and taunt the supporters. By 1848, the fight for women’s rights went national. Abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first convention addressing women’s rights in …show more content…
Women would also encounter advancements in respect to the economy, such as the enlarged accessibility of Family-Planning services and supplies permitting their enrollment in higher education and employment of a wider range of professional occupations. Until the nineteenth amendment, state laws forbade women from signing contracts, serving on juries, owning and inheriting property, and, obviously, voting in elections. Women who wanted to work outside of their home were extremely limited, the service industry being the only industry that would hire them, and pay rates were slim. Marriage was encouraged to women as it was the most secure form of financial stability, and bearing children was considered an obligation. The Woman Suffrage Amendment flipped the lives of American women completely