Suffrage

Women’s Suffrage: The 19th Amendment and Getting the Right to Vote The year was 1848. Something historic had happened in Seneca Falls, New York. More than 300 men and women assembled for the nation’s first women’s rights convention. (Library of Congress.) Woman suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, declared that “all men and women are created equal.” (Keller, 598.) She had based her ideas on the Declaration of Independence. (Barber, 193.) From then on, thousands of people participated in the…

“women suffrage”, as well as, selecting the date period of 1865 to 1925. Once I received my results, it was difficult to find a document that I really wanted to read, but I finally found one that pointed out to me at the end of page 1 labeled “The day book., (Chicago, Ill.), January 29, 1915, LAST EDITION, Image 1”. As I selected this document, it turned out to be a newspaper to inform women in 1915 that the state legislatures have a plan to abolish the women’s suffrage law, but the suffrage…

List of sources: #1- Feminism and suffrage #2- Begining of sisterhood #3- Women’s rights #4- Extrodonary women of WWI Background- Women’s pre war Women held traditional roles, similar to the centuries before Housewives, domestic work, teachers- professions considered suitable for women. There were women’s rights movements in both Britain and US, for more rights- marriage rights. ( #1Feminism and Suffarege p.21) There was also a suffragette movement in both…

The fight for women’s suffrage, and better wages and working conditions did not start up until the late 1860s. The main argument for women’s right to vote had to do with equality and equal representation. Many advocates for women’s suffrage had to deal with serious setbacks. Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, a British suffragist, poet and essayist wrote ‘’Unless a great effort be made now, I do not believe you or I, or persons twenty years our junior, will live to see women’s suffrage established in…

The first argument by James Kent was in opposition of universal suffrage. His main opposition was because he feared letting the general masses have control. Kent feared it would hurt “the rights of property and principles of liberty.” Kent argued that allowing universal suffrage would be damaging to their cities well-being. He used the example of countries such as France or England and how if they turned to universal suffrage, the poor people, without any property, would be in control. Kent then…

Suffrage ~During the war women watched their husbands, sons and loved ones go off to war.They stayed behind to take care of the responsibilities of family life alone. many also suffered from loved ones dying in the war. Women played a big role in Canada’s industrial achievements. They worked in textile factories and other industries but had been kept out of jobs in heavy industries. About 30,000 stepped in to take up jobs in machine shops, metal factories, munition plants, aircraft factories,…

The Women’s Suffrage Victory By: Michael Delahanty For what reasons did people oppose women's suffrage? Why did many Progressives, who supported other reforms, oppose it? People opposed women’s suffrage because they said that it would rid the domestic tranquility a woman created when she wasn't’ able to vote. Men thought that women had weak minds and delicate temperaments that couldn't survive the ways of the public life. They thought that the politics at the time would frighten women or…

became advocates of women getting the vote. Adams wrote so many letters to her husband, John Adams, explaining and trying to get him to understand why women getting the vote was so important. I think that women made a significant progress for women 's suffrage because women made it possible for multiple voting. There are now twice as many…

World War I and Women’s Suffrage During the twentieth century in The United States, women encountered and stood up to problems pertaining to their place in society. Ultimate freedom was the goal of many, as for the women, that was their proposed eventual goal. Many leaders rose up to the occasion, took action, and commanded the way towards personal moral success. Women demanded the right to vote, it was not an easy task to accomplish; however, with strength and potential, they overcame…

getting a fair shake in Canadian society. It was a broad spectrum of empowerment — fairness and people being treated equally, that was a real theme for her.” Nellie sponsored social advancement, giving speeches that surrounded the different aspects of suffrage that Canadians experienced. She covered topics such as: the need for dental clinics, medical care for school children, the requirement of traveling libraries, the offering of public-health nursing services, the use of birth control, the…