Not only a history professor at the University of Washington, W.J. Rorabaugh was also has notable published research based on the 1960s, including; Berkeley at War: The 1960s (Oxford University Press, 1989), Kennedy and the Promise of the 1960s (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and The Real Making of the President: Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election (University Press of Kansas, 2009). (Pg. 138). In the article, Was Antebellum Temperance Reform Motivated Primarily by Religious Moralism?, the focus of the article was to determine what the prime motivation behind the temperance reform was, whether it was a religious reason or because it was for social and business benefits. While both sides agreed that the ultimate goal was to “perfect the…
Here, Carrie began a career of charity and religious work. She became known as “Mother Nation.” (Madison, 62-67). Carrie organized the chapter of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). The WCTU helped to get Kansas to pass a law against selling alcohol.…
During the 1700s and early 1800s, women were seen as equals on the domestic front. The first Industrial Revolution changed the position of women from being farmers to domesticated housewives. Their new goals focused on keeping a balanced household and teaching children morals and values in order to grow up as responsible adults of character for the future of society. Towards the late 1800s, another shift took place that brought lots of social change and political reform, known as the Progressive Era. This shift led to women working in factories with long arduous hours.…
Other women like Anthony and Stanton were angered by this decision and felt that this decision wasn't good enough, and that women black or white, should not be excluded from the…
The Civil War had is one of the worst wars ever fought. There were challenges for the North and the South. Lincoln was elected President in November, 1860 and made his inaugural speech in March 1861, were two weeks before on February 16th, President Davis gave his inaugural speech to the Confederate States. Lincoln and Davis both were born in Kentucky, less than one-hundred miles from each other. Lincoln had very little schooling, was known as a storekeeper, country postmaster, rail-splitter, flatboatman, and a captain in the Black Hawk War.1 Davis was went to school at Transylvania University and then on to West point.…
The WCTU realized that until they had the right to vote, no government was going to listen to them. The men in power and the male voters were against the prohibition push. Nellie McClung and other women had a petition demanding the Manitoba government grant women the right to vote. She confronted the premier and said “we are not here to ask for a gift or a favour, but for a…
It lasted many years and involved many people. The Seneca Falls Convention started the fight for women’s rights in 1848. The convention was created by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, the two most radical and powerful suffragists. These women thought that they had the responsibility to fight for their own rights, and thought that women's thoughts and options should not be degraded. Women were looked down upon by men, which is completely unfair.…
During the convention, Anthony intended to stand and speak but the chairman interrupted her and told her that female delegates were only there to listen and learn. Right away Anthony and some other women in attendance stood up and walked out. Soon after, Anthony publicly declared to organize a women 's state convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president and Anthony as state delegate, creating the Women 's State Temperance Society. Following the creation of their organization, their attention centered on women 's suffrage and women 's…
The Civil War, the bloodiest war in American history, took over half a million American lives in just four short years. With the advent of advanced weaponry and extensively developed war strategies, American blood was spilled everywhere and no family was left unstained. However, many people overlooked a much deadlier force that hid behind the blazing guns and the explosive artillery, which ultimately contributed to the South’s demise. Disease (dysentery, typhoid, malaria) ran rampant throughout Union and Confederate armies due to unsanitary conditions and the lack of medical knowledge. People began to realize the potency of these microscopic killers and citizens of the Union accepted women as nurses to help protect their soldiers while the…
The National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was a group that fought for women’s suffrage that was founded in February 18, 1890. Though they did want equal rights overall, they eventually set women’s suffrage as their primary goal, a right that they would not get until many years after the gilded age was…
In the past not everybody has right to start out with. The people who was fighting for freedom was mostly slaves and women. The slaves didn’t have any rights all they did was work on plantation. In 1600s women’s was granted minimum education. What actions and events did slaves and women’s have to go through to get rights?…
The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was organized to fight for a constitutional amendment, while the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was organized to work on a state level to win voting rights. The NAWSA undertook campaigns to enfranchise women in individual states and lobbied President Wilson and Congress to pass a women's suffrage amendment. Although they won many rights (such as married women could buy and sell property, etc.), they failed to win suffrage. The third group, Congressional Union (CU), under leadership of Alice Paul, was a more militant organization. She called for an aggressive, militant campaign for the constitutional amendment, by bypass existing stage suffrage organizations and set up new ones in each state.…
The most important clubs included the National Education Association, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Women’s Trade Union League, the National Consumers League, and the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). In 1890, many women’s clubs came together to form the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC). The GFWC brought together women’s clubs from across the nation to share expertise and undertake coordinated campaigns. Primarily, women reformers in the club movements wanted to pass reform legislation. However, many politicians were unwilling to listen.…
Many of these women would devote their lives to the Temperance movement and women’s suffrage in hopes of making a better future for themselves and their daughters. One of the most historical causes was the Temperance movement which was against the consumption of alcohol, or alcoholic beverages. One of the leaders in the crediting of starting this movement was a man named Lyman Beecher, who started the fight against the consumption of alcohol in 1825. The reason being that these women were so…
For hundreds of years, women were seen to be inferior to men. Men and women had different obligations and rights at first. Women’s roles were solely focused on household area, and they were prohibited from voting, having a job, getting education, and much more. Women nowadays have different roles and responsibilities due to the changes that happened in the last hundred years. Since the globalization era and women’s rights movements, females and most males stood up to defend women’s rights and their equality to men.…