American Woman Suffrage Association

Alejandra Pulido Mrs. Youkhana ELA 8 P.1 20 October 2017 Susan B. Anthony the Right to Vote Have you ever wondered why Susan B. Anthony was a historical figure who took a stand to challenge the rules? Susan B. Anthony was a woman who decided to fight for women’s rights. In her generation, Susan was possibly a widely known suffragist. Susan knew it wasn’t going to be easy and had to face the consequences for taking a stand to challenge the rules, but with her courageous heart and determined…

The women in the late 1800’s had a tough life because everyone expected a lot from them. Also back then women had no rights what so ever. American women in the late 1800s were not treated equally to men because women weren’t allowed to marry freely, women weren’t allowed to sell will property or have money and women weren’t allowed to vote. First of all, women weren’t allowed to marry freely. Women’s parents very often choose who their daughters had to marry. Girls usually married in their…

Jane Addams was a Progressive reformer who helped women gain the right to vote and founded the Hull House.Carrie Chapman Catt was a Progressive reformer who was for women’s suffrage because she was president of the National American Women’s Suffrage association. Ida Tarbell was a Progressive reformer who exposed the evils of the Standard Oil Company in her great book A History of the Standard oil Company, which exposed the cruel ways of the Standard Oil Company and…

1919, the 19th amendment was a milestone for which many had struggled, it had taken years of agitation and protest to finally achieve this milestone. Female supporters of women suffrage organized, petitioned, and picketed to win the right to vote, but it took them decades to accomplish their purpose. By 1920, the American electorate had changed forever, but many argued that giving the right to vote to women wasn’t going to be enough. Women wanted independence, equality, they wanted the right to…

After her degrees, she spent time in London where she learned radical and “unladylike” tactics to draw attention from a woman suffragist by the name of Emmeline Pankhurst. She returned to the United States in 1910 and began to implement these tactics within the fight for women’s suffrage. Alice Paul’s party, the National Women’s party, of which she was the leader, continued their public protests even during World War I. These non-war related protests…

According to The Editors of Encyclopedia, Jane Addams was an American Social reformer and pacifist (Encyclopedia, 2017). She was brave. She took a stand for what she felt was right. She stood for social justice, education, equality and more. Jane Addams was also a cowinner of the Nobel Prize of Peace in 1931. “Jane Addams was the one of the most distinguished college-educated women of the first generation” (Jane Addams, 2010). She also won worldwide recognition in the first third of the…

the passage of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and nineteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, struggles to secure civic protection of the rights, American civil rights movement, African-American civil rights movement, and women’s right movement. Susan B. Anthony began focus more on women 's rights. She helped establish the American Equal Rights Association…

Section 1 Question # 2 Between the late 1890’s and late 1920’s, many African Americans struggled for survival and equal prosperity, especially after the effects of the reconstruction period. Many blacks had to live in the rural south, and make a life for themselves through lots of indentures to support both themselves and their families. This time period, was a huge disenfranchisement for blacks being that they had to deal with discriminatory behaviors, social, political and economic disparity,…

In addition to this the “NLU attempted to address its conventions special problems of women and African Americans” (105 CASHMAN). Further more; the NLU went on to point out that women were “paid less and treated worse than men. The most significant protective society for women was the Working Women’s Protective Union” (105 CASHMAN). You can that many groups…

acting out of line. While on the other hand, even some women rejected Susan’s protests because they felt like they did not need any more rights than they had (Harper 108-109). Susan B. Anthony was so headstrong and driven that she helped the idea of suffrage lose the crackpot image (History Wired). Men and women everywhere scorned her. People threw eggs and taunted at her. At one point, a dummy was made of her, and dragged it through the streets (Parker 30). Angry crowds gathered and attempted…