Women's suffrage

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…

to the ratification. By looking at what leaders of the suffrage movement were saying at the time we can gain insight of what the most significant arguments for the vote were. Although, intuition might tell us that the main argument for suffrage (i.e. women winning the vote) probably revolved around different equality arguments, this was not the case. The three most significant arguments for women’s suffrage were that women deserved suffrage as a reward…

Ninety five years ago, women gained the right to vote in the United States (Sprague). The ongoing fight for suffrage lasted nearly one hundred years before they were granted this right, with many of them risking everything from their social reputation to their lives for the belief of equality amongst genders. Women such as Harriot Stanton Blatch and Alice Paul, who protested at the White House for eighteen months straight after President Woodrow Wilson denied them support of the right to vote…

the fight for women’s rights, the continuation of child labor, and the unsanitary findings found within the meatpacking industry. Earlier this year, my Aunt Bessie generously awarded me one million dollars to spend on three different progressive reform groups of my choice. After deep thought and careful consideration, I have decided to divide the money between three progressive reform groups: women’s suffrage, the fight against child labor, and food safety. Furthermore, women’s suffrage is an…

From 1848 to 1920, the discriminative laws of the United States were tested when women came together to fight for their right to vote (Paxton, Hughes NP). The Women’s Suffrage Movement is seen as one of the greatest progressive movements in women’s history. Although this movement had an extremely positive effect on the future of politics and equal rights, there were numerous negative effects on the suffragists because of it. Suffragists then had to live their lives alongside this movement, which…

The beginning of the women’s suffrage movement grew out of a larger women’s rights movement. This reform really developed in the United States beginning in the 19th century. The atmosphere for social reform was fertile ground for the women’s rights movement. Initially, it began as a broad spectrum of goals, and later focused on the cause of suffrage. The domestic role, organized religion, education, and industrialization contributed to the emergence of the women’s political movement.…

voting rights to the Black. A few supporters of the suffrage movement like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton denied any support to the amendment because it did not have any clause for women’s right to vote. The movement gained momentum during World War I (WWI). When WWI was declared as the war for democracy by President Woodrow Wilson, women took the streets claiming that the US was not a democracy. In 1918, the President gave a pro-suffrage speech and the 19th amendment was passed the…

Wollstonecraft, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Hubertine Auclert, Marie Margret, Louise Otto and Augusta Schmidt. Without these leaders especially in the women’s suffrage movement, the world may not be the same. There was also a huge migration movement during this time was well in Europe. Women’s suffrage has always been a problem in all countries, mostly until the 1920’s. Even today there are…

accompany femininity in a male dominated world. In the past, women’s power has been seized by men in the name of religion, “science”, and even notions as weak as tradition. With the dawn of the industrial age in the late 1800’s, women saw their roles inside the home changing and this gave them the freedom to begin a metamorphosis from subservient homemakers into eager individuals. With a newfound…

Road to Women 's Suffrage On the day July 19, 1848 a meeting was in Seneca Falls, New York. This meeting was organized by a group of local Quakers and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an abolitionist and leading figure of the women 's rights movement. The meeting was held in six sessions, and lasted two days. Many subjects were debated, including the role of women in society and their right to vote. There were 300 men and women gathered at the convention; among them was the famous abolitionist Frederick…