“The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal as man.” Women suffrage is the right of women to vote. Women suffrage was the one of most important time periods in U.S. history. Women’s suffrage began from 1776-1920 during that time women strive to attain rights equal to men. In March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams writes a letter to her husband, President John Adams, asking that he “remember the ladies,” when the second continental congress writes the new constitution of the United States of America. She believed that the rights and freedoms written in the constitution should apply to women. But it didn’t immediately change the role of women in society. But Abigail Adams believes that women should unite one day
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Even Fredrick Douglass, a former slave and abolitionist, spoke in support of giving women the right to vote. After a long debate, the verdict stating that women should have the right to vote eventually passed. By the end of the first Woman’s Rights Convention, sixty-eight women and thirty-two men signed the declaration. With negative reactions accruing, many who had signed the declaration recede their names and support, now only the anti-slavery newspaper maintain to write articles in favor of women’s rights. In 1851, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton first met at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio and begin their fifty-year partnership working for women’s rights and suffrage. 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, …show more content…
Three very important women that help achieve this are Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. Hailed as “the Napoleon of the women’s rights movement,” Susan Brownell Anthony led the fight for women’s suffrage for more than 50 years, bringing to the cause superb organizational abilities, boundless energy, and single-minded determination. Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts into a reform-minded Quaker family. At an early age, Anthony was most interested in reform movements, but only temperance and abolition. At great speed, she drove herself into work, involving herself with reform movements. The temperance movement brought her into contact with some of the important reformers during the time period, including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucretia Mott, and Lucy Stone. Thanks to a fellow temperance worker, Amelia Bloomer, Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who three years earlier had called the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Even with Stanton’s urging, Anthony and Stanton become good friends. Before the Civil War, Anthony was the chief organizer of a series of state and national women’s rights convention held in New York State. She and Stanton also embarked on a county-by-county petition campaign to lobby the New York legislature for an improved married women’s property law, which was finally passed in
Even Fredrick Douglass, a former slave and abolitionist, spoke in support of giving women the right to vote. After a long debate, the verdict stating that women should have the right to vote eventually passed. By the end of the first Woman’s Rights Convention, sixty-eight women and thirty-two men signed the declaration. With negative reactions accruing, many who had signed the declaration recede their names and support, now only the anti-slavery newspaper maintain to write articles in favor of women’s rights. In 1851, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton first met at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio and begin their fifty-year partnership working for women’s rights and suffrage. 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, …show more content…
Three very important women that help achieve this are Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. Hailed as “the Napoleon of the women’s rights movement,” Susan Brownell Anthony led the fight for women’s suffrage for more than 50 years, bringing to the cause superb organizational abilities, boundless energy, and single-minded determination. Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts into a reform-minded Quaker family. At an early age, Anthony was most interested in reform movements, but only temperance and abolition. At great speed, she drove herself into work, involving herself with reform movements. The temperance movement brought her into contact with some of the important reformers during the time period, including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucretia Mott, and Lucy Stone. Thanks to a fellow temperance worker, Amelia Bloomer, Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who three years earlier had called the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Even with Stanton’s urging, Anthony and Stanton become good friends. Before the Civil War, Anthony was the chief organizer of a series of state and national women’s rights convention held in New York State. She and Stanton also embarked on a county-by-county petition campaign to lobby the New York legislature for an improved married women’s property law, which was finally passed in