Suffrage

Catt and the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War” , written by Linda Schott seeks to address the attempts of Carrie Chapman Catt and her role in women’s suffrage and the peace movement. The analysis of the life of Chapman Catt was very interesting in showing the strong and the low points of her crusade for women’s suffrage and her attempts at the peace movement. It is clear by the article that the author neither was for or did she completely agree with Catt’s efforts and attempts…

rights to vote. In fact she would right about the people she worked with and the woman's Suffrage Association.…

Both Pankhurst and Mill/Taylor challenged the women’s role in politics. Pankhurst asserted that suffrage and the right to a profession were among the basic human rights. She advocates heavily for a universal suffrage that included women, as it often did not. Pankhurst asserts that “either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote.” Her views on suffrage directly challenged the political status quo of the time due to the fact that women did not have the right to vote…

The Battle Hymn of the Republic is a song made by Julia Ward Howe by using the song “John Brown’s Body.” However Julia was also an advocate to abolitionism for women’s rights and their suffrage. The song was made for a patriotic American Civil War. Mostly none of the people’s songs written for the American Civil War were as strongly identified as her song. This song is still sung in churches and other schools because around for so long. Mrs.Howe got inspiration from the song that it led her…

women are not “less qualified” to vote. The question of this topic is brought up through a somewhat stern article. According to Willcox, William G., “discrimination in suffrage on account of religion, property, and color have been outgrown and abandoned.” The article then goes on to state that women have not outgrown the suffrage relating towards the right to vote. This brings up a key question towards readers; what is making women less qualified to vote? The clear answer was told according…

Adams, Massachusetts; and was the second oldest of eight children (only six of the Anthony children lived to be adults) to Daniel Anthony and Lucy Read. Anthony became a feminist and suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker activist for women’s suffrage rights and remained active until her death at the age of 86. Susan B. Anthony left an imprint on every woman since she spent most of her life working on social causes; raised in a Quaker politically active family she was motivated to make a…

convention, Stanton, Mott, and Susan B. Anthony, formed organizations that raised public awareness. Stanton and Anthony founded the American Equal Rights Association and formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. They focused their efforts on a federal woman’s suffrage amendment and challenged the suffrage by voting in the 1872 Presidential election. After a 70-year battle, on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote. Even though…

Zhang,Jiaying 1* Tang Essay: Reforms and Democracy Reform is defined as to “make change” and the reform movement of the early 19th century certainly changed the society, the economy and the political landscape of their time. But what sparked this radical movement for change? The reform movement was spurred by the revived religious fervor via the Second Great Awakening and would be hailed as a progressive, democratic movement pushing for democratic ideals. But does that argument hold any…

Beecher Stowe expresses many thoughts and beliefs on slavery. Her intent throughout the book is to express her belief of mistreatment and suffrage of African Americans. These two topics are directly correlated from beginning to end showing the negative impacts and damage caused to blacks at this time by dehumanizing them both mentally and physically. Suffrage was a constant throughout Uncle Tom's Cabin. For example in the beginning of the book Mr. Shelby fell into debt and was required to sell…

social movements due to the Second Great Awakening, even some men began to support the women's rights movement. But the pessimistic male view, which dominated the government and politics, did not agree with the arguments made by the women’s rights and suffrage movements and pushed them to the side, showing itself in the fact that women were not allowed to vote until 1920. The two opposite sides of human nature fought against each other, but no side gained a clear advantage because none of these…