Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

differences over time of woman in history, and the roles women played in different time periods in Western Civilization (San Miguel). According to Aristotle (1900), it appears that the Spartan women rebelled against the legislature in Rome and he states...…

consider the voices of those it’s governing. As Senator Owen states, “The great doctrine of the American Republic that ‘all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed’ justifies the plea of one half of the people, the women, to exercise the suffrage.” The anti-suffragists argue that if women enter politics that the government will become weak and unable. As the New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage states, “The ballot degenerates from power to weakness and…

On the second day of the convention, the famous African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass and other men were invited to attend the event. The resolutions were all passed and signed after a drawn-out debate about the importance of female enfranchisement. With Frederick Douglass’s help, Stanton was able to get the votes needed to pass all 12 resolutions. The public ridiculed the subject of women having their right to vote so some withdrew their support in fear of being mocked or dismissed.…

“Hot N Cold” artist, Katy Perry is not just busy making sure pop culture is on point. She is making her rounds in Las Vegas, Nevada to campaign for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. While wearing a t-shirt with the print “nasty women getting s*** done,” Katy Perry did the same routine “The Voice” judge Miley Cyrus did. And like the students Cyrus visited, students took their phones out to take selfies with the star. She also went door to door in each dormitory, at the University of…

of the 19th amendment, U.S. President George Washington Bush signing the Patriot Act, and President George Washington publishing his “Farewell Address”. I have chosen these three events because: the 19th Amendment allowed me to have the right to vote, the signing of the Patriot Act provided the tools necessary for America to stop terrorism, and Washington’s Farewell Address warned America of future events that would lead to trouble. As a woman, the ratification of the 19th Amendment is the most…

with the ratification of the 19th Amendment (Nineteenth Amendment (1920)) .However, the unity that those women once consolidated is now fractured. Since 1920, American women have been racing each other to defy social constructs and shatter glass ceilings. With the integration of women into male dominated workplaces, the subject of discrimination was breached. Those conversations led to the proposals of concepts like affirmative action and an Equal Rights Amendment, further polarizing working…

The Women's Suffrage movement was the struggle to gain same voting rights as men. The first fight started in July 1848 in Seneca Falls New York. On August 26, 1920, the Amendment to the Constitution of the U.S approved and declaring that all women be empowered with the same rights and responsibilities of citizenship as men (History, 2009). On Election Day 1920 millions of women vote for the very first time. It is unbelievable that women who live before the 19th-century did not share the same…

(NWSA) was created and supported a constitutional amendment for women’s suffrage. Soon after this would split and the American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA) was created. The main difference was that the AWSA believed that success could be achieved through state legislation. They stayed divided for 21 years to finally merge into the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). They were the driving factor in ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving the women the right to…

to attend the university” (Huntley 8). Later, women were able to go to school, but only to learn how to read the bible. Nevertheless, women were treated very poorly in the Renaissance, people would not think of them as humans, Huntley, the author, states in his book Women of The Renaissance, “Women were thought of as property” (Huntley 10). People would think of women, not as humans, but as property of their husbands. Since they were thought of as property, they were not…

The right to vote, down to its core, has had an illustrious history here in the United States of America. More specifically, women gained the right to vote less than one century ago. Upon the ratification of the 19th Amendment in August of 1920, women were now able to have a say their governance. It was how women gained the right to vote that has made a lasting impact. Not only did they overcome stereotypes, but they also exited their proper “sphere” in society. Even though some did not believe…