Anthony Giddens

Susan B. Anthony. Emma Willard was born on February 23, 1787 and died in 1871. Her life was dedicated to improving the education of women. As a child, Willard’s father encouraged her to read and write, and so she became a teacher.…

Women's Rights in the 1920’s and the history of the tremendous fight for equality The roaring twenties was a loud time for probation, gangs, jazz, but the the women’s rights movement roared louder. While researching the women’s rights I learned about the influential women who fought for equality and defined what it meant to be a woman in a free world. In this paper I have organized my topic in 5 categories. The first being the history of Women’s suffrage and then the rights and restrictions…

Susan B. Anthony once asked, "Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?" While the answer is seemingly obvious, few individuals have dared to oppose established laws and stand up for their unorthodox beliefs. Raised in an era in which women lacked many basic rights and were considered inferior to men, Susan B. Anthony challenged America’s deeply ingrained social norms of male dominance and advocated for major reform. On…

Some examples of other suffragists are Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Ida B. Wells. These women played some of the biggest roles in women’s suffrage just like Alice Paul. They all wanted what was fair and right for women and didn’t stop fighting until women were treated the with more respect. Susan B Anthony was one of the most well-known women’s suffragists was an was part of the movement. In 1851, she met Elizabeth…

politics. Many women accepted how the government was but some abolitionists wanted change.Without the help of women pioneers such as, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Ida B. Wells, the 19th amendment would not have been ratified. Susan B. Anthony, saw that it was wrong for women to not have the same rights as men. When Anthony was thirty two years old, she went to her first woman's rights convention in Syracuse. Once Susan left she declared "that the right which…

an image of America back in the mid 1800's being treated unequally and your voice not being heard. This is same scenario happened to a woman and leader named Susan B Anthony. Susan B. Anthony is a woman that was arrested in 1872, because she went to vote illegally by being a woman. Susan B. Anthony was an activist during 1872. Anthony believed that regardless of gender or race, you as an American citizen should have the right to vote. After Anthony’s arrest, she gave a speech about her illegally…

The history of a woman’s role in American society has always been a dynamic and constantly changing one. The Cult of Domesticity and Republican Motherhood were prominent ideas in the 18th and early 19th centuries that encouraged women to stay home and perform menial tasks. This notion of separate spheres between men and women began to be contested as the 19th century progressed. Beginning with the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 and continuing throughout the Gilded Age, society’s views on women…

This is my follow-up to week 1, and 2, number four, Ladies' Suffrage. Nineteen-twelve was when Theodore Roosevelt turned out for ladies' suffrage and turned into the considerable champion of ladies' rights. What's more, I think one about the minimum saw, yet more vital viewpoints, of Theodore Roosevelt is that he was the colossal male women's activist of his period as far as the essential office holders and lawmakers. However, that backtracks to the start. In 1902, Roosevelt requested the Equity…

In the time of Democratic-Republican and Whig powers, the United States was a very split country with little harmony. The Democrats began to fight for their ideals and spread them across the United States, usually by starting reform movements; which gradually changed the American society very gradually into the beliefs of the Democratic Party. These acts took place mostly in 1825 to 1855 and greatly changed the nation. Some movements such as the Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, the…

What was thought to be a family myth was confirmed by a Lincoln exhibition which uncovered the story of a historical exchange of letters between 11 year old Grace Bedell, and Abraham Lincoln, addressed on October 15, 1860. At the time of Lincoln’s running for office, young Grace Bedell thought it upon herself to advise Lincoln that he would have much more voter appeal if he grew a beard. She supported this cause by suggesting that, “All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their…