Women's suffrage

believed that with a woman held in a government position, more women’s voices and opinions would be heard. They turned to social welfare policies, “the advancement of women in politics and equal rights legislation.” (Source) Unfortunately, not all of their desired goals were met in the next decade however, this did not stop them from working hard thus, expanding in more rights for women. “After the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, many suffrage organizations encouraged women to be active in…

did things only to benefit themselves; this represents a conflict of interest. The attitude of the public towards the government was stale and harsh because they believed things such as women’s suffrage, working conditions and education should be fixed and not benefit only government officials. Women’s suffrage was a major part of the Progressive Era. They we’re fighting for the same rights that men have. Many people contributed to this movement such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth…

Yessica Garcia 9am class Temperance, Suffrage and Integration In February 14th 1929 was a massacre seven man’s found death on Chicago garage, four mans dressed as police officers. Was found on line seven men against a wall with a shoot on a head. The killer remains unidentified but was likely Moran though he was never charged with the murder. All these events occurring during the temperance the crime increase with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages. In the Capitol Hill neighborhood of…

The practice of limiting suffrage arrived in North America with the first settlers from England. Every colony imposed a property qualification for voting, and many denied the franchise to Catholics, Jews, Native Americans, and freed black slaves; women were rarely allowed to vote. Many of these restrictions made it through the Revolution intact; only about half of the free adult male population was eligible to vote at the time the Constitution was adopted. The right to vote has progressed to…

men. Women more often than not took care of the house and children while the man of the house went out and worked. If women did get a job their choices were limited. This inequality caused the Women’s Rights movement to be started, and the Women’s Suffrage movement followed soon after. The Women’s Suffrage movement was an important part of American history because it caused the ratification of the 19th amendment, which…

shift in the medical community. As America’s society changed after World War One, the lives of women improved in the United States in the 1920’s with the country giving them more public freedom and rights. The 1920’s was an important time for women’s suffrage,…

change from how life was before, the “Gilded Age” began by falling short for women, while boosting the morals of most men. The suffrage movements for women began in the year 1848 until around 1920. During this time, includes the formation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the passage of the nineteenth amendment to the…

the south in order to settle the country after the Civil War. She basically organized the Working Women’s Association. She did this by encouraging working women from the printing and sewing trades who had been excluded from men’s unions to join her in the fight for labor equality. She was a delegate to the National Labor Congress in 1868, where she persuaded the female labor committee to vote for women’s “equal pay for equal work.” Although the men at the convention ended up disregarding the…

The celebration was to include many domestic and foreign dignitaries, including the acting Vice-President Senator Thomas Ferry as a replacement for President Grant. The women were determined to make a point and conquer the opportunity to discuss women’s rights in front of them. They had asked respectfully and were turned down and they were determined to make their presence and the Declaration of Women known. Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Sara Andrews Spencer, Lillie Devereux Blake and…

U.S. sought to expand democratic ideals through the facilitation of ideas like abolitionism, women's rights, equal treatment, temperance, universal suffrage, and the overall more accepting nature of religion following the Second Great Awakening. The reform crusades created a greater awareness of the rights of others and created a substantially more accepting environment in the United States. The women's rights movement sought to expand democratic ideals by extending the right to vote to others…