Women's suffrage

During the convention of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association, Florence Kelley, A United States social worker, gave a speech about the nation’s current child labor status. Throughout the speech, Kelley uses various rhetorical devices and specific language to convey her thoughts on child labor while making a connection to women’s suffrage all at once. The significance of this message is to encourage women to support their right to vote. To begin with, Kelley’s use of pathos to…

National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was organized to fight for a constitutional amendment, while the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was organized to work on a state level to win voting rights. The NAWSA undertook campaigns to enfranchise women in individual states and lobbied President Wilson and Congress to pass a women's suffrage amendment. Although they won many rights (such as married women could buy and sell property, etc.), they failed to win suffrage. The…

Chapman 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…

100 years, the movement of feminism has come a long way. However, the fight is far from over. By continuing to campaign and raise awareness, feminists will one day be able to make a serious change in this country. The first gathering devoted to women’s rights took place…

Florence Kelley, a social worker and activist, found an unusual audience for her speech on child labor reforms. After all, the primary goal of the National American Woman Suffrage Association was to extend the right to vote to American women, not to reform factories. Yet, Kelley effectively persuaded the convention that both males and females should politically participate to the fullest extent of their ability to free the children from harsh factory work. Kelley appealed to her audience both…

Think, are women really treated equally with all of the same rights as men? After long, fought years for rights, women are still seen as being in the minority compared to men. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a women’s rights activist, one of the key leaders of the movement. She was just as impactful as the other women, struggling to get females the rights that they legitimately deserve. Despite being a woman with no rights, her powerful speeches and actions changed the lives of women in America forever.…

vocalizing their complaints and declaring their desire for the right to vote (Rossi). The National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Susan B. Anthony, was formed as well to fight for a suffrage amendment (Rossi). However, this all was not enough to convince men that women are responsible enough and capable of voting. Although African-Americans, another persecuted minority, were given suffrage in 1870, women were still restricted from the vote, and even more angered by it (Fifteenth).…

variety of issues such as women’s rights, the prohibition of alcohol, and the treatment of immigrants, just to name a few. The party categorizes their opinions as that of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. The success of the movement was also guaranteed by having politicians such as Robert La Follette and Woodrow Wilson by their side. During this era women thrived to be equal. Some of the progressive’s goals within women’s rights were birth control and woman suffrage. Woman’s…

by voting in November 5, 1872, and declining to pay the fine she had to pay. This shows that Susan B. Anthony was determined to fight for women’s suffrage rights and wanted equality. Susan B. Anthony also led the National American Woman Suffrage Association for women’s suffrage which led the outcome…

Anthony devoted her life to end women’s suffrage, and fought to prove that women had the right to vote. In the late 1800s voting was not permitted for women, and if they did they might get arrested. Anthony wrote and delivered stub speeches but didn’t have much success doing so. Nonetheless many years after she died her dedication made an impact in women’s right to vote, and in 1920 the 19th amendment was passed. In her speech Anthony talks about ending women’s suffrage, and her story of how…