Woodrow Wilson Women's Suffrage

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I first chose the topic of women’s right because, as a young woman in 2016 attending college in the United States, women’s rights are fairly important to me. As I began to look into the topic that I already knew was large and complicated, I decided to hone in on suffrage because I realized it was a pivotal point in the fight for women’s rights and I knew basically nothing about it. This sparked my interest and as I researched I became more and more intrigued and gained an even greater respect for these women who began the discussion of obtaining the rights I enjoy every day.
Women’s Suffrage in the United States took place between the 1848 and August 1920 (Loveday). Although women’s suffrage was going on in other parts of the world for many
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Wilson was in inaugurated in 1913 and served as president of the United States until 1921. Alice Paul targeted Wilson in her efforts towards women’s rights she believed (due to her political science background) that even though the president has very little control over laws and amendments that he could control congress through way of his political party which was democratic. “Alice Paul and 300 supporters met with President Wilson on Jan. 9, 1917, expecting that the president would have a plan for winning Congressional approval of the 19th Amendment.” (Sobieski) Wilson ignored the NWP for as long as he could even though they would mock his words by repeating his words on democracy from war and election …show more content…
Senate in 1922 to fill a temporary vacancy for Georgia. She was the first woman senator, and she served for only two days. Many other women followed in the footsteps, in 1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross was elected as the governor of Wyoming (although it was in the succession of her deceased husband) and days later Miriam Amanda Ferguson was elected in Texas. Now we are faced with a new opportunity, and that is to have our first women president in Hilary Clinton. Many women and men alike have expressed the need to vote for her on the fact that she is a woman because of the struggles women have and continue to face. Now personally I’m not sure I believe in electing our president on the case of their gender just for feminist sake, although I could only stand to benefit from the rights I would be sure to continue to hold. Without suffrage and women’s rights activists throughout the years I cannot say whether or not any of the previously mentioned things would have happen or not. To be completely honest I think no matter when suffrage happened it would have happened either way. This isn’t something like clashing beliefs of nations far off, this is women and men and the need to be treated equally. I believe that this is something that had to happen and is clearly something with which only evolves and never seems to fully be

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