Seneca the Younger

During this time period women did not have the right to vote. But the suffrage movement itself started decades before the civil war. On election day in 1920 millions of women exercised their right to vote for the first time. Most people during this time period saw women as less intelligent when it came to political decisions. Some men have even gone as far as saying that women were to stupid and weak to vote. For this movement women themselves were the most involved in fighting for their right…

were unable to vote, had no rights, women who were married did not have a voice to their opinions, and were submissive to their husbands. Women desired a change from this tradition and way of life. Women had their first gathering of women’s right in Seneca Falls, New York in July of 1848 (The Women’s’ Rights Movement, 2007). Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was the organizer of the gathering later met Susan B. Anthony and together they served as women right activist. That is how the National Woman…

Upon completing college, Helen Keller realized she wanted to go out into the world and find ways to help improve the lives other people who were similar to her. She began to travel the world speaking on behalf of others who were living with disabilities and helping them understand that they were fully capable of doing all of the things others who were fully abled could do. During the beginning half of the 20th century, Helen Keller really began to get into the social and political issues that…

The Free Masons: Fact or Theory Are the Freemasons a conspiracy theory? What did the Freemasons do? The group called the freemasons is an organization that is like a sorority for women. (January 2, 2013) The Freemasons is not a conspiracy theory. The freemasons are a very vast organization that will be learned about in this paper if you are willing to open your mind and let everything go and just read and learn. Morality, equality, and service to God; what do these all have in common. Well…

Who is Hetty Goldman? Why is she so important? Hetty Goldman was an american archaeologist who was one of the first woman to undertake excavations in Greece and the Middle East. The reason she is so important is because of her contributions to the archaeological field as well as how she opening up the field of archaeology for woman . She “ was born December 19, 1881, in New York City”(“Hetty Goldman:Life”). Her mother and father were Sarah Adler Goldman and Julius goldman. Mrs. Goldman was the…

Women’s rights movement basically revolves around the status of their political, social, and economic equalities. Women have been fighting for their equal rights since around 1792, meaning women have wanted equality since the colonial times. Although most of their work for equality was done peacefully or semi peacefully through protests, there were also times when they used force. There have been cases of women “militias” that only included women that would protest with force. Their main…

The fight for women's suffrage began in the early decades before the Civil War. Women were outraged over the fact that men had more rights than women, so many people decided to take a stand. In 1848, a group of mostly girls but some boys gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss all the problems within women's rights. For example, "Most of the delegates agreed: American…

For decades women struggled for the rights to vote along with travel what seemed to be an almost impossible journey to full and equal civil rights as American citizens. Women like Marie Jenney Howe helped pave the way for women to have a chance at achieving that goal. Howe was a member of the newly formed National Women’s Suffrage Association. She was also known for her monolog parody on the Opposition to Women’s Suffrage, created in 1913. Howe wrote and performed this parody because of the…

The 1960’s continued a movement which transformed the role of the women and society. This counter-culture movement sprang from the oppressive decade that was the 1950’s but also continuing the social and civil rights revolution that had been seen in the first half of the 20th century. The term ‘feminism’ was coined by the French philosopher Fourier in 1837 but took decades for this concept to develop into a movement which shaped the world we see today. Most historians categorize the Feminist…

The Night of Terror was during 1917 November when a group of women were arrested for picketing for their rights at the White House. They were protesting peacefully but were responded to by force and violence. While in the Occoquan Workhouse they were beaten and tortured and denied their basic rights as humans. It was a horrific event that was not justifiable by the the guards of the Occoquan Workhouse who committed this crime. The women that were a part of a group for women's right to vote,…