Women's suffrage

Oklahoma women opposing to women’s suffrage organized in an anti-suffrage group known as the Oklahoma Anti-Suffrage League or the Oklahoman Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Antisuffrage associations alleged that women’s suffrage would not solve the problems of women and society, and claimed that women’s societal roles must not be others than the ones related to the traditional view of womanhood such as piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. Excerpted from:…

female in office, women who ran were very rarely elected. The women's rights movement improved the lives of women by helping them achieve equal rights to men in their home life, work, and politics.…

“women suffrage”, as well as, selecting the date period of 1865 to 1925. Once I received my results, it was difficult to find a document that I really wanted to read, but I finally found one that pointed out to me at the end of page 1 labeled “The day book., (Chicago, Ill.), January 29, 1915, LAST EDITION, Image 1”. As I selected this document, it turned out to be a newspaper to inform women in 1915 that the state legislatures have a plan to abolish the women’s suffrage law, but the suffrage…

Women’s Suffrage Essay Draft 1 – March 30, 2016 (Word count: 1338) Women in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta were the first to gain a vote in Canada. The fight for women’s suffrage was a continuous momentum that was felt not only in Canada but also around the world, including in countries such as Great Britain and the United States. The suffrage movements in other countries influenced the women in Canada to fight for a vote as well. Three major factors that helped Canadian women succeed in…

Fed up with being bystanders to corruption and oppression, they decided that it was time to take a stand. The Women’s suffrage movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth century were determined to achieve three primary goals: attain the right to vote, implement changes to the female workforce, and improve the social status of females. By the mid-twentieth century, the female suffrage movements were arguably the key to the eradication of the gender differences between men and women. By…

As Jane Addams wrote this source on “Why women should vote, 1915”, she directed an issue that women faced during the early twentieth century, known as woman suffrage. In this historical document, Jane Addams explained the importance of a woman’s right to vote. First, she makes a claim that for all centuries it’s evident that a woman’s role is to take care of everything pertaining to her home, including her family. However, Addams explained that women (in general) cannot fully maintain their role…

Emmeline Pankhurst enforced an argument, where women suffrage has reached a substantial point where she will speak out for women to have rights. She covers herself how women have very little to no freedom. Secondary she uses outside sources to show that revolution will be possible with historical events from the past, this should blow a very powerful message because the use of historical events can satisfy one side’s defense. She included the differences between freedom men have compared to…

leading forces in the fight for women’s suffrage. She, instead of taking part in peaceful protests, which got them nowhere, founded the Women’s Social and Political Union, which took a more drastic approach at protesting- a more violent approach. The Women’s Social and Political Union arranged militant protests, which were violent protests. The fight for women’s suffrage had gone on far too long, with far too little success. Emmeline Pankhurst was explaining why the Women’s Social and Political…

of challenges in their fight for equal rights. Wyoming was the first state that give women equal rights with men to vote in all elections by 1869 and 1870. Little by little, more states such as Montana, Washington, Nevada, and Oregon embrace women suffrage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and other women leaders had to struggle to gain the right to vote in the same terms as men. Their efforts paid off, and finally by 1920, the Constitution ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to…

throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, including the evolution and progress that would soon become the fight for the woman’s right to vote. This wave of feminism was carried out through an amazing organization called NAWSA or the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Created February 18 1890, the organization began as means to push congress to allow women the right to vote and hold power in the…