Susan Glaspell

Leaders are usually civilians who have been through a great deal of hardship and have climbed to success from that hardship. They are heros that influenced people around them just by living their lives. One person who has done such a thing is Helen Keller. Helen was a deaf and blind but she did not let that get in her way. She helped shape the new way the community saw people with disabilities. She was also a political activist in her later years for women’s rights and socialism. Helen was such…

Women’s Rights For years women have not been given the right to, educate, vote for election, fight, work and represent. Women’s rights is the fight for the idea that women should have equal rights to men. Until 1935, married women in Australia did not have the full rights to own property.The effort to equal rights for women to remove gender from laws, and behavioral patterns. Nineteenth century The women rights movement began in the nineteenth century, by some women reformers for the…

Susan B Anthony had once said. “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less”. (Brainy Quotes) During the time of 1848 there was a group of women that gathered in Seneca Falls, New York; to discuss the issues of women’s rights. At that moment men's rights were exposed to many countries at the time, no matter the wealth that they had. Women began fighting for equal rights. The women got together and talked about that all the women's deserve all the rights and…

Many important events have occurred in government in the history of America. Each event has helped shape and makes America what it is today. The three important events to me were: the ratification of the 19th amendment, U.S. President George Washington Bush signing the Patriot Act, and President George Washington publishing his “Farewell Address”. I have chosen these three events because: the 19th Amendment allowed me to have the right to vote, the signing of the Patriot Act provided the tools…

Although, the article, A Powerful Partnership, states facts about Elizabeth, it also states facts about another woman who helped women have rights. That women, is Susan B. Anthony. So the article, A Powerful Partnership, does not include information on the contribution of Elizabeth Cady Stanton herself. It includes information on Elizabeth and Susan. That same article, says that they were a great team and that they shared many ideas together. It talks about two people’s contributions, not just…

Anthony, who was a Massachusetts teacher. Susan B. Anthony was an abolitionist, education reforming, labor activist, and a suffragette. She advocated greatly for the woman’s right to vote. She was a huge reformer and founded organizations such as the “American Equal Rights Association” with fellow…

Movement was a political movement in which woman protested, educated, and lobbied on behalf of all woman to gain equal rights and to be viewed as equal citizens alongside men. Many important women to this cause Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan…

centuries, women had been denied the right to vote and other rights. For over seventy years they fought for freedom and numerous rights for women. After the first meeting on July 19th at Seneca Falls in New York, abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony planned meetings to work on getting more rights for women (“The women 's rights movement”). After a significant amount of fighting and convention after convention to try and gain rights, they came up with a solution, this…

the women’s suffrage movement was because women were fighting for the right to vote in elections. In 1890, two national suffrage organizations that were rivals merged together and made the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA), led by Susan B. Anthony. They made many attempts to vote in the early 1870s but were turned away, after being turned away they filed lawsuits in hope the Supreme Court would agree that women had the right to vote, because of the constitution. Once the…

During the Gilded Age , the United States saw the growth of the economy, the development of new technologies and products that would definitely help improve the way of living of the middle class citizens, but in this period of time also came with many downfalls such as the corruption made by ineffective politicians, child labor, low wages for massive amount of working hours, and the poor treatment toward minorities and women. However, it was not until the Progressive Era , when the United States…