Suffrage

antebellum years in the northern United States, women’s rights movements were being born and a massive world-historic movement for social change was underway. The radical struggle to end slavery was just the beginning of the life long fight to end women’s suffrage. The many women that lead these powerful movements will forever be remembered in the fight against slavery and for women’s rights, but they would face many challenges and set-backs along the way during and after the Second Great…

terrain, the territory was mostly populated by men. Many hoped that by giving women suffrage, they would attract more single women into the region. Other states soon followed Wyoming's footsteps, giving women full or partial suffrage before the 19th amendment in 1920. Colorado passed the bill in 1893, followed by Utah and Idaho in 1896. However it wasn’t until 1920, nearly a seventy years since the women's suffrage movement began did women…

come a long way and a lot had to change in order for the Democratic Nominee, Hillary Clinton, to even consider becoming president one day. The effects of women suffrage led to the start of the powerful feminist movement that changed the way women confronted social standards. Warrren K. Leffler points out, the beginning of women’s suffrage began in 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott issued a meeting in Seneca Falls Convention in London to talk about “Social, civil, and religious…

franchise” (Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions). When it came time to vote, eleven resolutions passed unanimously, but female suffrage was more change than many were comfortable with at the time. Eventually, the ninth resolution passed as well; at the end of the second day, the Declaration was approved by the assembly. However, many denouncers of women’s suffrage, male and female alike, retracted their support of the Declaration (History.com Staff, “Seneca Falls Convention…

Anthony. This woman fought for women’s suffrage, the right to own property, the temperance movement, and more. She became a teacher in the 1830’s before moving to Rochester, New York. There she helped with the abolitionist movement. During this time Anthony became the head of the girls’ department…

Analysis Paper #2 After reviewing the background of The Voting Rights Act (VRC) of 1965 from the case files from www.nytimes.com, I will brief discuss the purpose of it. According to the required reading of the New York Times, “The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was encated to address entrenched racial discrimination in voting.” Voting was never considered equal when it came to women or people of color. In our history, many states never allowed those two groups to vote. However, they wanted…

Women during the modernisation period had many expectations during the time, the women of the time wanted many additional rights, democracy and a better living standard, but overall their expectations were just to me treated fairly and equally. Many events took place to help the women achieve these, The Suffragettes, Women in the French Revolution and Women workers all held these expectations. This essay discusses if the modernisation period did or did not fulfil the expectations of European…

“We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy (Zahniser, J.D).” This quote was posted on a banner by protesters for women rights, Lucy Burns and Katharine Morey (Zahniser, J.D.). These are just two of many women that protested for equal rights for women. Alice Paul was probably the biggest pioneer for women’s rights. She organized the white house picketing campaign (Zahniser, J.D.). Alice Paul staged a parade of 5,000 people in 1913 (Crocco, Margaret Smith). She did anything and…

In Britain there were two different groups that were fighting for women’s rights, the suffragists and the suffragettes. They both were fighting for the same issue, however they went about it in different ways. The suffragettes started in 1905 campaigning for women to have the same rights as men to vote in the upcoming election. (Vellacott, 2013) They protested these issues by organizing mass marches, interrupting political meetings and even chaining themselves to railings. This caused them to…

Prior to the revolution in France, women were viewed as “passive citizens”, meaning they relied on men for everything, and did not make their own daily decisions. Women were expected to play domestic roles in families, so they stayed home and took care of housework. In addition to this, they were also not allowed to be involved in politics or be public figures. When the French Revolution began in 1830, women became involved in society in many ways. Women can now vote, they are not only judged by…