Suffrage

Women used many different methods to earn the right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Movement.The first method used is they set up a parade in Washington, DC and Woodrow Wilson attended this. There were large crowds of drunk men who began yelling, throwing bottles at women and many other rude and destructive things. Hundreds of women were marching and when the crowd attacked these women 100 went into the hospital. The police seemed to do nothing about the situation but this went into the…

Suffrage means to have the right to vote in political elections. The concept was an ideal means for women throughout history, especially for women between late 1700’s and early 1900’s. Women suffrage had long been publicized to society since the 1700’s by Mary Wollstonecraft in 1792 (Scholastics), and many other events or activities, led to the ratification of the 19th amendment. At the same time, the right for African Americans suffrage was also an approach. Through many generations of African…

Women's suffrage is good although it might sound bad because it might sound like suffer. In 1848 the fight for women's suffrage began. Right away there was a “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…

voting rights to the Black. A few supporters of the suffrage movement like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton denied any support to the amendment because it did not have any clause for women’s right to vote. The movement gained momentum during World War I (WWI). When WWI was declared as the war for democracy by President Woodrow Wilson, women took the streets claiming that the US was not a democracy. In 1918, the President gave a pro-suffrage speech and the 19th amendment was passed the…

Prior to the group being founded, women’s suffrage was considered a preposterous idea but thanks to determination and courage of the NAWSA this notion began to crumble. Under the leadership of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, the NAWSA launched state level political and social campaigns to gain women’s right to vote. This influenced the minds of some to allow women’s suffrage, but unfortunately not enough. During World War 1, in the absence of men women…

risks and working together with other suffragists. Women’s suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections that took place in the late 19th century. For example, women didn’t have a right to vote and didn’t have control over their kids and property. National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts to gain voting rights. Alice Paul, one of the main leaders of the National Woman’s Party, took a big role in women’s suffrage. According to Alice Paul, women were definitely…

Emmeline Pankhurst was one of the leading forces in the fight for women’s suffrage. She, instead of taking part in peaceful protests, which got them nowhere, founded the Women’s Social and Political Union, which took a more drastic approach at protesting- a more violent approach. The Women’s Social and Political Union arranged militant protests, which were violent protests. The fight for women’s suffrage had gone on far too long, with far too little success. Emmeline Pankhurst was explaining why…

During my visit to the Museum of the City of New York, I went through many exhibits of different activist movements.. In the end, I chose the exhibit discussing the issue of women suffrage. Women suffrage means a woman’s right to vote. One artifact of the exhibit that caught my eye was the woman suffrage flyer. This was a flyer that was distributed throughout the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn during the 1910’s. It was printed in an effort to raise awareness of the fact that many women did…

The fight for women’s suffrage had been a long winded and grueling battle, but on August 26, 1920 women finally got the vote, 70 years after the Seneca Falls Convention, the Nineteenth Amendment stated, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged… on account of sex.” However, African American women were unfortunately still largely disenfranchised. Nonetheless, before women were enfranchised they undertook several political reforms such as birth control and…

Woman suffrage is the right for women to vote, while suffrage was just the right to vote for anyone. The people who fought for woman suffrage, whether they were a man or a woman, were called suffragists. The idea or woman suffrage began in the early 1800’s, when changing social conditions, along with the idea of equality, caused some women to feel like they were being treated unfairly, which caused them to found the woman's suffrage movement. However, the movement did not actually start until…