Carrie Chapman Catt

government was funded better with income taxes. Women during the Progressive era were placed in settlement houses to be taught the ways of a middle class American if they were immigrants. In the settlement house, the women there became activist. Carrie Chapman Catt, a suffrage leader of the National American Woman Suffrage Association who became an influential speaker had fought for the rights of women to vote. By the 1900s, more than half of the states allowed women to vote in the education…

to vote. The eastern and southern states belived that women should not be able to vote, so the women couldn’t vote yet. In the year 1916, a very smart women that was apart of the National American Women Suffrage Association with the name of Carrie Chapman Catt displayed an a idea that would change the voting rights of women in the south and east…

success of progressive ideas is women’s rights. After 70 years of campaigning, the movement towards women’s suffrage was finally gaining real support in government. Under Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, women once again rose against the government Carrie Chapman Catt lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association through a long and exhausting campaign towards reform, eventually leading to the ratification of Women’s voting rights in 1920. She had this to say about the experience, “It is…

American’s in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era strove for an ordered society. This was a time of rapid economic growth, new products and technology to improve life, and change in jobs for many Americans. This was a time of new growth and prosperity in the United States. The “Gilded Age” is usually assumed to be from the election of Grant in 1868, until the turn of the twentieth century. It led to the creation of railroads, telephones, and cheaper goods for consumers. While all of this…

important leaders in the 19th century suffrage movement were Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. In the 20th century suffrage movement, Alice Paul, and Carrie Chapman Catt were the leaders. As for the 19th and 20 century suffrage movement, both Anthony and Paul were focused on getting the vote through media, Catt and Stanton had their different tactics, and as for Stone, she was there with Anthony and Stanton along the ride. Anthony and Stanton…

strangling America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Throughout the Progressive Era, there were also activists for women’s suffrage working to have a “pure” voice in American politics. The fight for women’s suffrage was spearheaded by Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association, as well as Alice Paul, known for her protests and hunger strikes. These two women were a couple of the notable suffragists that ultimately led to the passing of the 19th…

The Evolution of Women’s Rights Many historians mark the beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement on July 13, 1848. It all began with a tea party when Elizabeth Cady Stanton was invited to have tea with four of her women friends. During the course of the tea party, she expressed her concern with the way women were treated in this “New America.” Within two days of this conversation, Stanton and the other four women picked out a day to hold a convention. This date was July 19 and July 20 ,1848…

“Conservative” path. This method included going state by state and asking each individual state to pass their law. This was the safer alternative but took a long time. It was called the American Woman Suffrage Association or AWSA and was lead by Carrie Chapman Catt. There was a second way to get women’s suffrage which was the “Radical” path. This method included going straight to Congress and asking for them to pass a Federal Amendment. This was the riskier path but it was way faster. It was…

Even though women joined the Progressive movement and supported the ideas, they were doubtful of their own political ability. The work of suffragettes such as Ida Wells Barnett, Alice Paul, and Carrie Chapman Catt, continuing the legacy of Susan B. Anthony and other Reconstruction era feminists, was able to push for women’s suffrage. Wyoming, having women’s suffrage in their state constitution 30 years before national law required it, was an inspirational…

But it also gave all the women around the world the faith and the confidence to do anything a maiden wants to do. Carrie Chapman Catt once said that “us women in the adjustment of the new order, we women demand equal voices and no less.”This means that all the women demand freedom,also known as equal voices in the quote.Well how may one demand freedom well with confidence…