Women's suffrage

On September 17, 1787, the U.S. Constitution was signed. The U.S. Constitution didn’t allow women to vote until 1920. One of the things the Constitution did was help the U.S. government set up three branches. Also, two of America’s Founding Fathers were not able to sign the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution was signed. Until 1920, women did not have the right to vote. Before 1920, when women were not allowed to vote, in Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, women were already to vote.…

Megan Shu Shu 1 Ms. Thurtle English 1AS November 7, 2014 Susan B. Anthony’s Fight for Women’s Rights Susan B. Anthony stood at the door of the voting room, taking a look at the inside of the room. The room was grey, small, there were no windows, and only one way out. The room was full of people concentrating on filling out their ballots. As she walked in, everyone…

problems. One of these reformers in particular was Susan B Anthony, which was one of which that shined light on the issue of gender equality and/or women suffrage. Susan B Anthony was born on February 15th, 1820 in a Quaker family. A family in which was committed to social equality. In particular, Susan B Anthony had played a huge role in the women’s suffrage movement, along with her family. One of the issues she campaigned for consisted of the right for women to own property. Not only did she…

believed women to be “childlike and incapable of independent thought” (Why Women Couldn’t Vote). Several women’s rights organizations achieved social change through publicity, leadership, and civil disobedience. The women’s suffrage movement is an example of publicity because of its coverage. First and foremost, women were arrested for their protest in front of the White House during the women’s rights movement because they were “obstructing…

the Civil War, and the eventual passing abolition legislation. Lastly, the women's suffrage culmination in the 19th Amendment . The examples are all in different centuries; they concern different groups of people. They are chosen to show that freedom is a relative…

The victory of women’s suffrage was a huge advancement in the way women were treated. It proved that women and men were equal in terms of citizenship. But despite having won the largest advancement in women exploitation, winning the right to vote was not the end of women’s pain. Women still had to fight to be seen as capable in a male-dominant society. During this time period, men generally ran the workforce, while women ran the homes doing typical house jobs (Kim). There were some exceptions…

Marie J. Howe Parodies the Opposition to Women’s Suffrage 1. The arguments that anti-suffragists made in the 1800s and early 1900s include that women were not logical, they are creatures of impulse, instinct, and intuition and make decisions based on their emotions. Women have physical inabilities, mental disabilities, spiritual inabilities, and general inability that prevents them from marking a ballot and putting it into the ballot boxes. Other arguments include that if women were given the…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a women’s suffrage reformer in the Progressive era with a radical view in which women not only deserve the right to vote, but they also deserve freedom from all forms of oppression women face. Women lacked freedom in society due to gender norms that were put onto them such as, needing to be dependent on a man, follow the customs of “being a woman”, and having others define who women are without having any right to rebuttal and fight for more. Women in the progressive…

popularly shows women as happy housewives, which might seem odd since suffrage was just granted and women should want to use their new political power to expand their roles, yet the expansion of women’s rights does not happen again until the 1960s. So what caused this change from a strong suffragette to a delicate housewife? To understand the change, the suffrage movement, and some of its flaws, need to be discussed first. The Women’s Suffrage Movement/ First Wave Feminism: The first wave of…

Passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, the 19th amendment was a milestone for which many had struggled, it had taken years of agitation and protest to finally achieve this milestone. Female supporters of women suffrage organized, petitioned, and picketed to win the right to vote, but it took them decades to accomplish their purpose. By 1920, the American electorate had changed forever, but many argued that giving the right to vote to women wasn’t going to be enough. Women wanted independence,…