Carrie Chapman Catt

After the end of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s, the new era brought new problems that desperately needed solutions. The progressive reforms made in the late 1800s and early 1900s forever impacted the United States. Some of the biggest progressive reforms were made in the women’s rights movement and the child labor movement. Arguably, the biggest reforms of the progressive era are the reforms made in the women’s rights movement. Before people starting making these dynamic…

Imagine the role of a woman in the early 1800s, waking up and right from the “get-go” feeding and clothing children while trying to keep them in line all day. The latter half of the day spent cleaning the house and cooking a meal in preparation for the husband to return. During the early years of the 19th century women were expected to be proper and hold themselves with respect. They were not encouraged to pursue an education, their only role was to “play house” and be a mother, Margaret Sanger…

The nineteenth amendment is to ensure women their right to vote. The struggle for victory took decades of protest and anger. Starting in the mid-nineteenth century, generations and generations of women’s suffrage supporters lobbied, lectured, wrote, marched, paraded, went on strike, organized, petitioned, picketed, held silent vigils, and practiced civil disobedience to quickly advance the United States of America’s constitution and obtain the right to vote. Many original supporters had passed…

Of the women’s suffrage movement and its contributors Alice Paul stated, “I always feel...the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.” Thousands of women were behind the passing and ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920 from Susan B. Anthony to Lucy Burns, a close friend of Paul’s. However, Paul was being too modest in her previous statement. She contributed much more than a little stone to the mosaic that was the…

physicians and social workers into her American Birth Control League, many states continued to prohibit the sale of contraceptives, not giving women the right of what to do with their own body. The National Women’s Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman…

their goal to vote, but in the 1890s the members decided that it would be in their cause’s best interest to consolidate both groups and become the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The leaders of the group included Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucy Stone, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, all big contenders in the suffrage movement. The ladies’ strategy was to push for voting legislation with the state governments, and then that would pressure the federal government into finally…

Carrie Chapman Catt, were most likely more critical figures passing the change; and Alice Paul and the NWP freely created strategies of peaceful challenge which were strikingly like the techniques for advancing political and social change being produced at about…

and a one hundred and thirteen-year struggle for enfranchisement began. The Suffrage Movement and the fight for women’s rights attracted many activists. At the forefront, Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Lucy Burns, Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, Lucretia Mott, Alice Paul, Lucy Stone, and Ida B Wells-Barnett to name a few. The activist established groups, National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), American Woman Suffrage Association(AWSA), National American Woman Suffrage…

same way she does. Women and Economics hailed economic independence and a combination of career and marriage as the solution to the problems, especially the emotional and mental problems, that women of the time faced. Suffrage leaders, like Carrie Chapman Catt, loved the book and lauded it as a book that was “utterly revolutionizing the attitude of mind in the entire country, indeed of other countries, as to woman’s place”…

feminists. Anthony campaigned hard for women’s suffrage, forming an organization for her feminist cause. Without her and her group, women may not have voted across America for another fifty years at least. Anthony was so influential to the nation, Carrie Chapman Catt, the woman who took over Anthony’s suffrage organization, the National American Woman Suffrage Organization, said about her predecessor,“Her 86 years measure a movement whose results have been more far-reaching in the change of…