The United States Would be Different if Women Never Got the Right to Vote. According to Statisica, there are about 70% of the women in the US who vote. (N.A., 2023) -. Women got the right to vote in June of 1920 but Congress did not ratify it until August of 1920. The suffrage movement lasted 120 years from 1840 - 1920. If the suffrage movement had not happened, the United States would be different. Even though women got the right to vote in 1920, not all women were allowed to vote, to have a say in government, allowed to own a business. Although women in certain states were allowed to vote, women in other states were not. Women in Utah could vote because the bill had been passed there, while women in Kansas could not vote because the bill
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Susan B. Anthony has been arrested by police for voting in a Presidential Election. Anthony stated, “I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's right.” (Anthony, n.d.). There were other women who were arrested for protesting on the sidewalk. Despite their efforts to get the right to vote, women were representatives and senators. According to the Center for American Women and Politics, it created a timeline stating all the women that were either representatives or senators. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1866), Martha Hughes Cannon (1896), and others were allowed to be representatives or senators before getting the right to vote in 1920 (Center for American Women and Politics, 2022). Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to serve in Congress in the year 1916 (Tbilisi, U.S.E, 2021). Since women were being allowed to vote, women eventually could own their businesses without a male co-signer. In 1988, President Reagan signed the Women’s Business Ownership Act into law. Women have started to prove more and more that they can be
Susan B. Anthony has been arrested by police for voting in a Presidential Election. Anthony stated, “I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's right.” (Anthony, n.d.). There were other women who were arrested for protesting on the sidewalk. Despite their efforts to get the right to vote, women were representatives and senators. According to the Center for American Women and Politics, it created a timeline stating all the women that were either representatives or senators. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1866), Martha Hughes Cannon (1896), and others were allowed to be representatives or senators before getting the right to vote in 1920 (Center for American Women and Politics, 2022). Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to serve in Congress in the year 1916 (Tbilisi, U.S.E, 2021). Since women were being allowed to vote, women eventually could own their businesses without a male co-signer. In 1988, President Reagan signed the Women’s Business Ownership Act into law. Women have started to prove more and more that they can be