Women's suffrage

for the Seneca Falls Convention. This convention was a two-day event and over the period of the two days the Declaration of Sentiments was read, then on July 20, 1848, it was signed. This event was only the beginning of the movement towards the women’s suffrage movement. The next seventy-two years consisted of many battles, some won and some lost. Each battle, even the ones lost, paved the way for women to have the freedoms we do today; thanks to those amazing women we have our rights to vote,…

Women used many different methods to earn the right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Movement.The first method used is they set up a parade in Washington, DC and Woodrow Wilson attended this. There were large crowds of drunk men who began yelling, throwing bottles at women and many other rude and destructive things. Hundreds of women were marching and when the crowd attacked these women 100 went into the hospital. The police seemed to do nothing about the situation but this went into the…

The Boston Tea Party, The Women’s Suffrage movement, Abolition of Slavery, introduction to labor laws and union, and The Civil Rights Movement, are historical social reforms that individuals were fueled by deep conviction demonstrating civil disobedience. The U.S Bill of Rights asserts that the authority of a government is from the governed, and if any form of the government becomes destructive and is not in the right of the duty of the people, then it should be alter or abolished. Social reform…

postulation believed that women should be allowed to vote, or have suffrage. Through trials and tribulations over the course of half a century, women were finally granted legal access to the ballot. The rise of women suffrage then led to a culture that rebuked previous social and cultural implications placed on women; the new woman formed from this newfound independence is today known as a flapper girl. The radical notion of equal suffrage came about in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York where it…

Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and the women's suffrage movement, showed many methods like a parade, picketing at the white house, and the hunger strike against the president, Woodrow Wilson; but survived to see if what the worked for, freedom, would finally happen. One of Alice and Lucy’s methods were to have a parade for women's rights. Alice and Lucy organized the parade to show they were going to help win America the right for women to vote. This helped people, both men and some women, picture what…

The great women’s suffrage advocate, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, is historically quoted as saying “The best protection any woman can have….is courage.” This was and will always be extremely powerful because it helped women gain the confidence necessary to fight and continue fighting for their rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is looked upon as the leader in the women’s suffrage movement. In order to stand up and fight for what she believed in she had to have an abundance of courage. This is very…

historical documents of the American Women’s Suffrage Movement and her exact words are used in the nineteenth amendment of the Bill of Rights. She also wrote many controversial articles in national magazines and her most notorious publication The Woman’s Bible. She was the voice behind fellow Suffragette, Susan B Anthony. Stanton wrote many of Anthony’s speeches while harnessing a beautiful and lifelong friendship which was vital to the progress of the suffrage movement. Stanton was co-founder…

The fight for women’s suffrage had been a long winded and grueling battle, but on August 26, 1920 women finally got the vote, 70 years after the Seneca Falls Convention, the Nineteenth Amendment stated, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged… on account of sex.” However, African American women were unfortunately still largely disenfranchised. Nonetheless, before women were enfranchised they undertook several political reforms such as birth control and…

The rise of women’s advocacy groups during this time period had profound effects on the course of western history and society. The women's question sparked social, political, and economic reforms that act as the foundations of modern life. The freedoms practiced today can be directly traced back to the women's suffrage movement; in which women campaigned to achieve equality. The efforts of the the suffragists spawned a century's worth of progressive reforms that would not only impact women, but…

done without hope and confidence” Helen Keller, author, humanitarian, and lecturer once said. Many Americans may be unaware on the true impact she left on the women’s rights movement. Keller pursued life as an avid activist promoting, humanitarian beliefs, education, and women’s suffrage. Keller published an essay, “Why Men Need Woman Suffrage” in 1913. She targets men as her main audience hoping to broaden their minds to realize the importance women have in society. Tying back to the meaning of…