National Convention

being able to vote, it would be a long fight before they got the right to vote but the fight was worth it. In 1869, Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Women’s suffrage association. The main goal of this association was to be able to gain voting rights for women and “make their votes matter.” In 1890, the national women suffrage Association and the…

Adams, Massachusetts and was raised in a Quaker household. Later went on to work as a teacher before becoming a leading figure in the abolitionist and women's voting rights movement. She partnered with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and eventually lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony died March 13, 1906 at the age of 86 in Rochester, Ny” ( "Susan B. Anthony Biography.") Susan B. Anthony showed being an honorable individual throughout her life because she was an open-minded to…

World War I and Women’s Suffrage During the twentieth century in The United States, women encountered and stood up to problems pertaining to their place in society. Ultimate freedom was the goal of many, as for the women, that was their proposed eventual goal. Many leaders rose up to the occasion, took action, and commanded the way towards personal moral success. Women demanded the right to vote, it was not an easy task to accomplish; however, with strength and potential, they overcame…

the impact she had on social injustices but wanted to know more. Eleanor is an important part of National and world wide history because of the work she did. In the US, she strived to get rights for women and fought for the rights of colored people. Her passion led her to impact the world when she helped draft the International Bill of Rights. A large majority of our research was done in national archives, as they proved most useful in finding primary sources. One of our more useful…

Jane, World War 1 just ended and everybody in Washington County is celebrating. All of our wonderful men in arms are coming back from the war, including me. Many of the women that had to fill in for jobs when the soldiers left are losing them because the men are back. Rumors are the women are planning to change some things, but the men don’t believe them. I believe many things will be changing soon, even though they didn’t change much here during the war. Although much hasn’t changed where I…

Suffragettes were members of women's organizations in the late 19th and early 20th century, which advocated the extension of the "franchise", or the right to vote in public elections, to women. It mainly refers to militants in Great Britain such as members of the Women's Social and Political Union. The reporter Charles E. Hands in the London Daily Mail first used the term “suffragette” as a term of contempt for activists in the movement for women's suffrage, in particular members of the Women's…

including man. During the Seneca Falls Convention, women spoke their minds/ and made it clear as to what their intentions were as to equal rights for women; by being stern to the opinion and concerns. “As progressive as the abolitionist movement was, the inherent sexism of the day served to divide and alienate its members; while men feared that abolitionist goals would weaken by attention to women’s rights” (Lindsey, 2011, pg. 128). At the Seneca Convention, a list of these women’s…

Women around the world have fought a long and hard road for equality between sexes. They have overcome many obstacles in the past fifty years so many men and women think that women have overcame everything, but that is not true. Their biggest and most profound march was in 1913 and it was called “The Suffrage Hike for Women’s Rights.” The biggest leading cause one of their march was for women to be able to vote. Their biggest achievements was in 1920 when they had won the right to vote. In 1920…

In the website New York times the article “ Voters Gather at Susan B. Anthony’s Grave in Rochester was published November 8 2016 and it was writing by Sarah Maslin NIR Susan B. Anthony is the most important key people in this article. The main idea of this article is that in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., up a low hill there is the grave of Susan B. Anthony a leader of the movement for women’s suffrage who lived about three miles away. On Tuesday a line of hundreds of people who came…

In the 20th century, Home Economics was a very distinct part in family’s lifestyles. Back then, it was mostly up to the women to do the early home economics work. They canned peaches, sewed, and other regular home economics work. Women back then claimed that it was “A conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen”. Back in those days, it was believed that it was a woman’s place to be in the kitchen. Though this theory was blown out of the water more than half of a century later, major social role…