Women's Rights Movement Research Paper

Since The Founding, who has the right to vote is a privilege that’s been debated. The founding fathers restricted the amount of people eligible to vote. I believe that anyone who lives under the laws formed by politicians should be able to vote and select those who write the laws. While I hold that opinion I can see where the Founding Fathers and many law makers were coming from, back then men were superior and women were expected to agree with their husbands’ ideals and political views. In regards to the suffrage movement overall, including all races and genders, I think they feared that the right to vote had some power that not all citizen would use wisely. I mean think about it, back then there was a big economic gap between land-owners and non-land owners. Wouldn’’t you, as a land owner, be worried that your rights might possibly be overrun by the vote of non-land owners?
In Article 1 Section 4, the Founding Fathers gave the states …show more content…
One of the forces that expanded suffrage was women’s organizations such as NAWSA organized protest, petitions, mass meetings and parades to raise awareness about women’s suffrage. They took on the issue state by state eventually gaining national suffrage in 1920, granted by the 19th amendment (p. 162). In the beginning of the twentieth century that also used ballot initiatives to assist in granting the right to vote (p. 392). NAWSA probably would’ve never existed is it weren’t for the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, which sparked the beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement (p. 158). The Women’s Rights Movement helped support the abolishment of slavery, which in turn lent a hand to the fifteenth amendment guaranteeing the right to vote to African