Women's Suffrage Is Good

Women's suffrage is good although it might sound bad because it might sound like suffer. In 1848 the fight for women's suffrage began. Right away there was a “Conservative” path. This method included going state by state and asking each individual state to pass their law. This was the safer alternative but took a long time. It was called the American Woman Suffrage Association or AWSA and was lead by Carrie Chapman Catt. There was a second way to get women’s suffrage which was the “Radical” path. This method included going straight to Congress and asking for them to pass a Federal Amendment. This was the riskier path but it was way faster. It was called the National Woman Suffrage Association or NWSA and was lead by Alice Paul and Lucy Burn. …show more content…
The AWSA took the overall approach of being slow and steady. This worked but it took a very long time to get even a single state to approve. They used techniques such as using national holidays to try and spread the word. Another strategy that was commonly used was speeches and pamphlets. This was good because speeches targeted a large crowd all at once. Pamphlets were useful because it gave the chance to share ideas and explain a little better along with answering more personalized questions. AWSA also fired people who hurt their good reputation or who brought different, big, and new ideas that were not what they wanted to hear. While NWSA took the overall approach of going straight for the federal amendment. One technique that they used was to start a new organization to bend around some of the rules/regulations, this allowed them to use their own tactics their way. They also used hunger strikes. This is when they would be sent to jail and they would refuse to eat. This is because they thought they did nothing wrong, this lead to them being to be force fed. This had one of the most impacts because they were risking their lives. They also did protests which were hard because the police would not give them full protection so they would be getting rocks thrown at them and they were even getting attacked by anti-suffragists. The NWSA had a more …show more content…
The hunger strike contributed so much to the amendment being passed because it dealt with lives that could possibly be lost. It also raised a lot of tension because it shortened the time frame allotted to the government to make the decision. The timing of the war also contributed to the amendment being passed because it stressed out the government. When NWSA and AWSA kept approaching them and making meetings, they could have given in a little to lessen the load on their