...Alice Paul was major contributor to the Women’s suffrage movement. Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885 in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. She is the first born daughter to William and Tacie Paul, and has three other siblings named William, Helen and Parry. Her family followed the religious practice of Hicksite quakers. They also owned a large 264-acre farm that Alice and her siblings grew up on called Paulsdale. It was away from the town but not completely isolated from it. They all participated in some farm chores but mainly used farm hands to do the majority of the work. Alice remembering the advice of her mother said “When you put your hand to the plow, you can’t put it down until you get to the end of the row.” Even though her family was relatively wealthy, they lived quite simply. Alice was raised to believe in gender equality which is said to have influenced her greatly throughout her life. Being a Quaker, one of...
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...Vote). Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were the main advocates for the women’s Rights Movement in the 1800s, and Alice Paul was the main activist in the 1900s. The women’s rights movement achieved suffrage by engaging in civil disobedience, having great leadership, and gaining lots of publicity. Engaging in civil disobedience was crucial for the achievement of gaining suffrage for women. On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony brought her mother and sisters to vote with her in her hometown of Rochester, New York. After she cast her ballot voting for Ulysses S. Grant, a US Marshal came and arrested her....
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...According to the article, “Alice Paul Biography,” Paul was born on January 11, 1885 in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. Due to being raised by an affluent Quaker family, Paul graduated from Swarthmore College in 1905, and then furthered her education in both New York City and England. During her time in London, Paul joined the women's suffrage movement in Britain, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, in which she learned many of the tactics and personalities that she would then utilize for the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. The article, “'How long must we wait?' Alice Paul wanted action on votes for women, so she took her demands straight to the top,” mentioned that along with Paul’s experiences as a member in the women’s suffrage movement in Britain, her education in political science also influenced her tactics for the women’s suffrage movement in the U.S.. Paul, unlike many others, believed that president Woodrow Wilson was the key to the implementation of a women’s suffrage amendment. Many were troubled with her obsession with...
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...Jennifer Duban Mrs. Blatchley Social Studies 20 Feb. 2024 The Women’s Rights Movement The howling wind whips through your hair and the frigid rain is pouring on your face, but still, you stand. The jeering crowd is violent with its taunts and jeers, but still, you stay. Your feet ache with seemingly endless pain, and you feel weak and could collapse, but still, you push onward. You are fighting for your rights, and the suffrage for you, your friends, and your children. You cannot stop now (Van Garnier). This was the daily experience of women suffragists during the Women’s Rights Movement while they were picketing the White House. From 1840 to 1920, women fought for their suffrage, rights, and equality of 20,00,000 women. Pioneers such as Elizabeth...
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...line in order to get a vote for women. In the film, the main event that started it all for the National Women’s Party was the parade. At the time, there was support from the NAWSA because the NWP had not been completely formed. They marched in order to make the world aware that they wanted a vote for females. This is similar to the images we see in our book, Figure 8.1 -8.6. There were suffragists who marched down fifth avenue in the film (Figure 8.3), picketers who were in front of the white house and who were arrested (Figure 8.5). Overall, the film was an accurate depiction of what women suffragists were dealing with at the time. Although, in this film, there might have been discrepancies in order to get the “most viewers.” The people making the film wanted to the get the message of the NWP across to the viewers, but also wanted to make the most money. That would be a major pitfall in this film compared to what went down in history. In addition, viewers want love to see some form of romance in this film. The character played by Patrick Dempsey kept trying to win the heart of Alice Paul. Also,...
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...The declaration of war in 1917 very nearly stopped the suffragists’ picket line and brought their movement to a halt. Many suffragists argued that they could not and should not picket a wartime president, since it would harm the public opinion of their goal and could be considered treasonous. However, Alice Paul believed that giving up, even for a few years or so, would reverse the progress that they had made. As a result, she continued to maintain the picket line, though with one change; no mothers. The war would take fathers away from their homes as they left to fight, and the suffragists did not want children to live without their mothers as well while they stood in protest. Despite the peaceful nature of their protest, however, the public...
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...During the late 1910’s, women did not yet have the right to vote, but suffragettes, like Alice Paul, began working toward a better America for women. During these trying years, activists for women’s rights endured numerous hardships and public ridicule. Slanderous propaganda suggested that women were communists. Some were tortured. Still, others lost their lives in the struggle. Few people understand the sacrifice made by these women, a sacrifice that ensured future generations of women would have a voice that was heard. Although women's suffrage in America was a terrible experience due to events such as unfair imprisonments, poor treatment and unnecessary suffering, the outcome was tremendous, resulting not only in their right...
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...equal voice among everyone. Before 1911, California lagged behind in recognizing women’s demands for an active role in public life. The movement for the right to vote for women started in Seneca, New York, which is known as the Women’s Suffrage movement. This movement was a fight for equality, which could be seen as the birth of feminism. Although there were many women who led the fight for equal voice, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were the two primary figures of the movement. Due to California’s political climate, the movement brought great disappointment and victory for women’s rights. Disappointment turned into resolve and set forth the movement in California. Women created coalitions and started to spread their word from southern to northern California for their voice to be heard by others. The movement in California was comprised of white middle class women, but they didn’t support Asians because they feared white backlash. Soon, the eyes of the nation opened in 1911 when male voters approved women’s right vote making California the largest state to approve of women’s suffrage. Women’s suffrage in California reached started out on a high note. In 1893, early success came when the women’s suffrage bill won approval in the state legislature but it was vetoed by the governor claiming it was unconstitutional. The suffragists later took the same issue to California voters in 1896, where Populists, Prohibitionists, Republicans, and unions joined the women’s alliance...
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...there was no crowd to greet him. People gave up meeting the president in order to observe a bigger spectacle down on Pennsylvania Avenue, a woman suffrage parade. Five thousand women, sporting purple, violet, and gold banners, had united under the leadership of suffragist Alice Paul to march through Washington in demand of their right to vote. Shouted and jeered at as they processed, these women braved the hostile crowd while gaining significant publicity for their cause. [pic][pic] The movement of women into the public and political spheres had been gaining in momentum and popularity since the mid-19th century. Women demanded suffrage as early as 1848. The Seneca Falls convention brought together 200 women and 40 men, including feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, to make the claim for full citizenship. The delegates believed women to be citizens not limited in any way to their roles as wives or mothers. In the language of the founding fathers, they wrote, "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal." They rejected Victorian domesticity and its separation of women and men into private and public spheres, respectively. It was at Seneca Falls that the suffrage movement first began. Women entered into public life more and more in the years after the convention. In part this was linked with the expansion of educational opportunities at the time. Women's colleges sprouted up all over the country, enrolling young, mainly white middle-class...
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...across the nation to bring attention to the issue. The suffragists, advocates of the voting rights for women, made several sacrifices and the eventual passage of the 19th Amendment resulted in progress to America, one of which is educating new American citizens on the importance of this amendment. The suffragist movement has a long history and included many sacrifices. Beginning in New York, with the Seneca Falls convention in 1848, women rallied for the right to vote. Twenty-one years later, few state constitutions allowed women the right to vote. However, women wanted it written in the U.S. Constitution. So in 1869, Anthony and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. Two years later, in 1871, a petition signed by Anthony, Stanton, along with four other suffragists, was sent to Congress asking that voting rights be given to women. The petition also asked that women be given the right to speak in Congress. The petition noted that, “Men are represented on the floor of Congress and so may be said to be heard there. Women are allowed no vote and therefore no representation cannot truly be heard except as Congress shall open its doors to us in person.” Unfortunately, the request had little effect. Years later in 1878, the amendment that granted women the right to vote was first proposed to Congress, however, 22 years passed until it was finally ratified in August 18, 1920. Through the many years the suffragists were criticized, called all sorts of names, attacked...
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...Victoria Ward Bonnie McMeans English 112 March 30th, 2015 Votes for Women: The Struggle to Get Women from the Household to the Polls In “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, the protagonist Mrs. Mallard is told her husband has died. At first she is sad, and weeps in her sisters arms. Soon after though, she is sitting in her room and she becomes relieved when she realizes that she is now free. She notes that she often didn’t love her husband, and vows to live her life for herself. At the end of the story, her husband walks through the door, having been alive the whole time. Mrs. Mallard literally dies of grief at seeing he is alive and well. This intrigued me, as I wondered why she was so upset he wasn’t dead, and I wanted to find out more about women’s roles in 1894. At the time this story was written, women did not have many rights. They could not seek higher education, own land or property, and they could not vote. In 1894, the fight had started but the battle was still a long way from being won. This story was inspiring to me, and it made me want to learn about the fight for women’s suffrage since 1848, which is when the Seneca Falls Convention was held on July 19 and 20th (“Rights for Women”). According to the National Woman’s History Museum, it took women more than seventy-two years to get right the vote (“Rights for Women”). I find it amazing that the United States denied women the right to vote for that long. The fight for women’s suffrage, which started with the Seneca...
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...superior to women when it came to a lot of things, including voting rights. Some women were fine with it, but others took a stand to convince the president and Congress to pass an amendment to give women the right to vote. In the 1800’s, women fought with everything they had for women’s suffrage. About 72 years later, the nineteenth amendment was passed, which enfranchised women. The Women’s Suffrage Movement was launched in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York at a women’s rights convention. This was the first women’s rights convention that took place. The top leaders of the cause that pushed more than anyone were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. What they wanted more than anything was women equality, and they wouldn’t stop, no matter what. The women also tried to influence politicians to let women...
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...the Golden Globe Award, USA 2005, for best performance. In this movie, “Defiant young activists take the women’s suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.” The National American Women’s suffrage Association, or NAWSA, was an organization that was founded in May 1890. This was the largest suffrage group in the United States. The group had quickly become the leading organization of hundreds of other smaller groups. The main advocator was Susan B. Anthony from 1890-1900. In the 1900’s Carrie Champan Catt took over the organization. Later in 1904 Anna Howard Shaw was the president of NAWSA. When the organizations goal was achieved in 1920 NAWSA was transformed into the League of Women Voters. The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage was created under NAWSA in 1913. However, in 1917, The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage split from NAWSA. The founders, Lucy Burns and Alice, Paul created NWP- National Women’s Party. This new group’s focus was the passage of a constitutional amendment ensuring women’s suffrage. Both NAWSA and NWP had the same concern. These women were fighting to have the same rights as any other American man. They protested for a constitutional amendment that would give women the same right as any men to vote. When asked by a doctor to explain herself, Alice Paul replied, “You want a place in trades and professions where you can earn your bread. So do I. You want some means of self-expression...
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...To be inducted into the Hall of Fame, these people must have exhibited extraordinary qualities such as courage, perseverance, or resilience to name a few. Many groups of people in the Progressive Era deserve to be in the Hall of Fame, but only 6 will get recognition. A fewer number of people deserve to be in the Hall of Shame. Those people were greedy and cared more about money than the welfare of their workers. The Progressive Era was a time of change and reform for women, inventions, and working conditions. It was a time where change needed to occur and with the erroneous behavior of some, a transformation was brought around. Suffragists are the most passionate, determined people who were constantly being discouraged by nonbelievers. Margaret...
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...social changes that confronted the United States, including industrialization, the rise of powerful corporations, the growth of cities and the mass arrivals of immigrants. This period was known as the Progressive Era. Two major historical turning points that took place during this time were (1) Women earned the right to vote and (2) Education. Women Suffrage The early 1900s saw a successful push for the vote through a coalition of suffragists, temperance groups, reform-minded politicians, and women's social-welfare organizations. Although Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton devoted 50 years to the woman's suffrage movement, neither lived to see women gain the right to vote. But their work and that of many other suffragists contributed to the ultimate passage of the 19th amendment in 1920. Two groups that contributed to the passage of the 19th amendment the women organizations the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), founded in 1890, and the National Women’s Party (NWP), founded in 1913 and led by Alice Paul. Alice Paul and other women of the National Women's Party picketed the White House. They wanted then President Woodrow Wilson to support a Constitutional amendment giving all American women suffrage, or the right to vote. Women gained voting right in the west before the east and south and many wonder why. I believe it was because of money and development the powers that be were interested in getting the women votes to help them control development...
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