Carrie Chapman Catt

to get the right to vote. The goal of Carrie Chapman Catt in the movie was to stand in the way of Alice Paul in her fight…

use rhetoric for the persuasive use for the audience to examine his/her concern. Carrie Chapman Catt,”Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage,” “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, and “What is Rhetoric?” are examples of well used rhetoric to strengthen their claim and arrange…

On August 18 1920, women could finally vote. No longer were they treated the same as children, the tender of their children and house, the cook, the cleaner. Liberty and freedom was granted to what was perceived as the ‘fairer sex’. On that date, the 19th Amendment passed. But what was the long road to that amendment? What is the story, and why did it take so long to get there? Women winning the vote in 1920 not only represented an important and vital step to equality, foreshadowing the future…

Carrie Chapman Catt, in her Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage, effectively claims that a woman’s right to vote is not only necessary, but also inevitable. Her goal is to convince United States Senators and House of Representatives of the idea that women are not inferior to men. Her approach is planned in its attempt to persuade the minds of not only men, but also women to think differently. The speech itself was based on logic and reasoning, therefore making it impossible for her…

family, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Ida B. Wells all explain what their perspective on American Freedom really is. Although the term freedom is unclear and many people felt as it was a privilege. Gamio, Catt, and Wells had a different perspective, they often thought they had to fight for what was theirs. In explaining his perspective of American freedom Gamio took a different look. Gamio interviewed an immigrant family originally from Mexico. The family…

Alice and Carrie wanted most of the same things for the movement but Alice was more tenacious, she may have crossed the line but it was worth it in her eyes to prove that women deserved the same rights of men. The local suffragist groups did a great job at promoting…

The two movements eventually reunited in 1890 to become the National American Woman Suffrage Association led by Susan B. Anthony until 1900 when Carrie Chapman Catt took over. Under the direction of organizer Carrie Chapman Catt, the NAWSA pursued a “state-by-state” strategy to win the vote for women in each state. During the world war women insisted, that the failure to extend the vote to women might impede their participation in the…

There were some significant changes in the U.S. in the early 1900’s. One change was that the 19th amendment was ratified, resulting in women being guaranteed the right to vote in the U.S. There had been a great amount of debate focusing on whether women should be guaranteed the vote leading up to the ratification. By looking at what leaders of the suffrage movement were saying at the time we can gain insight of what the most significant arguments for the vote were. Although, intuition might tell…

Anthony. Catt chose teaching as her career after attending college then being a superintendent. Catt became the president of the NAWSA in the year 1900 and again in 1915. “Catt believed it was woman’s natural right to participate in politics on an equal basis with men. If women could vote, she argued, they would become a force for world peace…

In Alice Paul: Feminist, Suffragist, and Political Strategist written by The Alice Paul Institute the text said, “Although both Carrie Chapman Catt, NAWSA president, and Alice Paul shared the goal of universal suffrage, their political strategies could not have been more different or incompatible. Where NAWSA concentrated a majority of its effort upon state campaigns, Paul wanted to focus…