Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    achieved no matter what. For example, Martin Luther King Jr wanted equal rights for all African-Americans however other people believed that equality for African-Americans wasn’t achievable but in the end, he was able to achieve equality. Amendments like the 1st 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 13th, 15th, 19th guarantees equality for everyone. Freedom is able to…

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    At the time the United States was founded, women did not have even close to the same rights as men. “...married women couldn’t own property and had no legal claim to any money they might earn, and no female had the right to vote. Women were expected to focus on housework and…

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    During the 1920s, the image of the American woman evolved from one of submission, to one of independence. The laws were changing in the United States; women’s groups, such as the National Women’s Party, were working to gain equal rights for women and they began achieving these rights piece by piece in this era. In 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified thereby allowing women the right to vote. During this decade, there were astronomical changes to laws, education, and the job market for women…

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    The film, Suffragette looks at the struggles the women who fought for the right to vote went through. The film takes place in London 1912, prior to women having the right to vote. As a result, women's rights were not valued as much. Caffi states that "Every social institution should have as its sole reason for being that of assuring the happiness of the man conscious of his own individuality" (Caffi 1970). A man's happiness, needs, and desires at this time were much more valuable than a woman's.…

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    19th Amendment August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment was finally added to the constitution. It wasn’t that easy, there were years of protests, campaigns, petitions, parades and other tactics used to help push this amendment through (History.com). These tactics created attention to help dramatize the issue. Since the time of the American Revolution, women fought to gain the same social, political and economic rights as men. Women had been fighting for the right to vote long before the 1900s.…

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    discrimination that their was towards the black people. The Brown v. Board of Education 1954 it started out so students will all get along . The human rights in the United States was a compromise of rights which were legally protected by the constitution of the United States. There was a amendment which was of the Fourteenth Amendment that guarantee of equal protection to all the black people. The people of the U.S have the right to be treated fairly and equally under the law. In the first…

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    child labor, workers compensation, direct elections, and political reforms. The Progressive Movement shaped the United States into the nation it is today, without it women still would not be able to vote, prohibition would probably still be in affect, Native Americans would not be United States citizens, labor laws would not have been established, and business…

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    The 19th Amendment

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    The 19th Amendment: From Seneca Falls To Ratification Americans have long fought for equal rights, and they continue to fight for them today. Despite America’s founding idea of democracy, only white Protestant male who owned property could actually vote. As voting rights evolved, all white males gained the right to vote without discrimination towards age or social status. Even with the evolution of voting rights, women remained barred from the ballot. Though the Suffrage Movement started as a…

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    There were two principal antislavery movements in the United States before 1833. One centered in the North and the Chesapeake among free African Americans and white Abloished, and the other that existed in the South among slaves. These movements were fueled by evangelical Christianity and shared roots in the age of the revolution. The antislavery movements in the North offered a nonviolent way to end slavery, but in the South, abolitionists like Tuner, and Gabriel had to use violence to fight…

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    weren’t people that helped fight for civil liberties and civil rights? One might say that white men would still be the only ones with opportunities in the United States because women and slaves would still be treated as property forced to do things they didn’t want to do. Americans have achieved goals expressed by the United States Constitution in some ways like fighting for civil rights, and civil liberties, yet there is still a long way to go in order for everyone to have equal opportunities…

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