...For as long as I can think if, women have not shared the same rights as men. The 19th amendment states that the right to vote shall not be restricted by gender. This amendment gave women the right to vote! Originally, only white men were allowed to vote. The 15th amendment of the constitution stated that it is illegal for the government to deny anyone the right to vote, however this did not apply to women. With the passing of the 15th amendment, the right for all men regardless of race was able to vote. Now with the passing of the 19th amendment, everyone over the age of 18 is allowed to vote. In my opinion, this amendment and the Women’s rights movement in general could have been avoided if the 15th amendment included women of all races as...
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...protesting and civil acts, they were able to make safer working conditions and end sufferage. From 1920 and earlier food, drinks and medicines were far from safe for consumption. Meat packiging factories did not care what went into the meat. In Upton Sinclares book The Jungle , the book depicts working class poverty, the absence of social programs, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions, and a hopelessness among many workers. Many readers were concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, based on an investigation he did for a socialist newspaper. The book helped bring along two acts that would help in consumer protection. The Fedral Meat Inspection Act and The Pure Food and Drug Act.The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) is a United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products. In the late 19th century into the early 20th century womens suffrage was a rising event. The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)...
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...the United States of America. The nation had experienced mark destruction by the civil war. Slaves were now emancipated and must be considered. These events were marked turning points for the country. Of these turning points, the social security act and the 19th amendment were most influential in that they initiated an act of government that is still practiced today. 1. Identify at least (2) two major historical turning points in the period under discussion. The 19th Amendment The woman’s fight for their own equality and for others was not an easy one. It can be traced as far back to the first woman’s right convention in Seneca Falls, New York in July of 1848. It was here that the woman suffrage movement was launched and the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was born. Some of the key sponsors for the launch were courageous women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia. Contributors to the movement were also abolitionists, whose goals at the time were to include equal rights for all, including that of the Negro male. In 1870, their fight was partially won with the passage of the 15th amendment to the Constitution, thus giving the Negro male the right to vote. The passing of the 15th amendment spurred the movement on for their own equality, and in July of 1890, the Territory of Wyoming, became the first state to allow women voters. By 1900, other states such as Utah, Colorado, and Idaho followed By 1910, NAWSA was in full speed, this in...
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...Though the nineteenth amendment may be few in words, there is a story behind it that couldn’t be told with a million. The struggle to gain this amendment was lengthy and difficult, but the final product : “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex,” and, “Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation (US Congress).” This short statement immediately inspired those who supported it and continues to act as fuel for the fire of feminists today. Many events led up to the ratification of the nineteenth amendment. In July of 1848, the woman suffrage movement got a great start in the Seneca Falls convention headed by Elizabeth...
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...assembly, and the freedom to act as long as those actions do not harm others. While this concept sounds simplistic now, this was a controversial...
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...of the United States. But upon arrival, he was dismayed to find 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...
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...other women to fight for equality, fight for freedom, fight for the opportunity to be a strong independent woman in a nation of strong independent men. This paper will discuss several significant events that shaped the future for women in America. Events driven by women that wanted their voices to be heard through a sea of men, women that wanted men to realize that women had a lot to offer this world we live in. The first event this paper will discuss is the American Equal Rights Association started in 1866 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This association would shine a light on women’s suffrage in the nation and later inspire a more radical group called The National Woman Suffrage Association. World War I was another event that that the shaped the future for women in America and around the world. Women left their homes to become nurses that would care for wounded soldiers around the world. Another event is the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920. The 19th amendment gave women a voice in elections throughout the country. Their votes would now count alongside the men’s to shape the nation. As years went by the issues women faced did not cease. Women fought for more and more rights and notoriety, such as Amelia Earhart. Ms. Earhart would be the first women to flight solo across the Atlantic and later would accomplish many other firsts as a woman, in and out of an airplane. America would...
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...encouraged other women to fight for equality, fight for freedom, fight for the opportunity to be a strong independent woman in a nation of strong independent men. This paper will discuss several significant events that shaped the future for women in America. Events driven by women that wanted their voices to be heard through a sea of men, women that wanted men to realize that women had a lot to offer this world we live in. The first event this paper will discuss is the American Equal Rights Association started in 1866 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This association would shine a light on women’s suffrage in the nation and later inspire a more radical group called The National Woman Suffrage Association. World War I was another event that that the shaped the future for women in America and around the world. Women left their homes to become nurses that would care for wounded soldiers around the world. Another event is the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920. The 19th amendment gave women a voice in elections throughout the country. Their votes would now count alongside the men’s to shape the nation. As years went by the issues women faced did not cease. Women fought for more and more rights and notoriety, such as Amelia Earhart. Ms. Earhart would be the first women to flight solo across the Atlantic and later would accomplish many other firsts as a woman, in and out of an airplane. America...
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...Expansions? The amendments of the early 20th century were a crucial breeding ground for the development of how government and citizens saw their roles. Religious groups and women preached toward anti-alcoholic sentiments and brought about the 18th amendment. Many states prior to this had already banned alcohol sales and it was considered a state matter that government shouldn’t interfere with. This amendment, although morally right, was more of a volatile infringement on American standards that had been around since the Mayflower. Government officials ended up accepting bribes, alcohol that was sold illegally often killed buyers from poisonous elements used in home distillery, and the mafia began to establish stronger footholds...
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...was also in charge of the girls’ department at Canajoharie Academy where she held the position of principle for two years. Miss Anthony still felt the need to devote her time to social causes and upon leaving Canajoharie Academy in 1849; she continued her passion for social issues by becoming a leading activist for women’s suffrage. Susan Brownell Anthony became known as one of the greatest known suffragist of her time, becoming the woman’s suffrage movement icon. Susan B. Anthony had a solid platform to...
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...politics and on the home front of America. The first battle for women’s rights came in the mid to late 1800’s, prior to the Civil War at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. The movement came to a sudden halt, just as it started to begin, due to the Civil War. In 1869 the proposed 15th Amendment, which gave black men the right to vote, fueled the women’s right movement even more (Bowles 2011). Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton played a major role in the early part of this movement. In May 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; an organization made up primarily of women. Their object was to secure an amendment to the Constitution in favor of women's suffrage, and they opposed passage of the Fifteenth Amendment unless it was changed to guarantee to women the right to vote. They continued work on The Revolution which included radical feminist challenges to traditional female roles (Ward 1999). Lucy Stone reorganized her Association in late 1869 to launch the much larger and more moderate American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The AWSA included both men and women as members and they supported the 15th Amendment as it was written. They knew that if they...
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...a very unstable time in history, due to the changing status of minorities in the culture at this time due to the end of the Civil War and the impending revolution for women’s rights with the passage of the 19th amendment. Dating as far back as the early 1800's women’s roles were consistently being challenged and questioned, it was not so much the women’s rights marches of the 60's but it was the beginning of that revolution. During the early part of the 19th century women’s character was separated with four basic attributes: piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity. Even the foreign visitors to America during this period found fault in American male’s attitude towards women, they thought males treated women as inferiors and subjected women to double standards. "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being and legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage." This is according to a 1765 law established by Sir William Blackstone an English barrister, and American law followed this principle thereby the wife "belonged" to the husband. These were the times that women lived through and the conditions they lived with during the early part of the nineteenth century. As I move forward making mention of a woman named Mary Wollstonecraft who has been called a...
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...The women’s suffrage movement made quite an impact on life today. If this movement had never started all those years ago women wouldn't have as much rights and freedom as they have today. Women are in the world but nobody ever saw them as something. They weren’t considered actual people unlike men were. Confident women started this movement and weren’t going to stop until they had achieved their goal to be considered an equal citizen. Women have brought this suffrage all over the world. This whole movement was just about women wanting to be equal to everyone else and not denied their right. They claimed that fighting for their rights was a way of showing what it meant to be a woman and a citizen in the United States. Even if the women were very well educated they were still denied their right to vote. These women took a stand for what they wanted and wouldn't stop until they got it....
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...Alice Paul is a great woman for the yet to be designed ten dollar bill. One of the major requirements for the ten dollar bill is the woman has to be a champion of our inclusive democracy, and Alice Paul fits the bill. Alice was a huge women's rights supporter in Britain and the U.S. This means she fought to include all rightful citizens into our democracy. Alice Paul went to great lengths to ensure that women would be included equally and fairly into our "power to the people" method of governing. Alice Paul was a very strong and independent woman, who believed very powerfully in women's equality to men. She was extremely determined to make women and men equal, especially on a federal level. This makes her a great woman to put on the bill...
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...Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Lucy Stone founded the National Women's Suffrage Association. The National Women's Suffrage Association was founded because, in order for women to obtain voting rights, they wanted to have a constitutional amendment. While they started the most influential associations in the United States, there were other associations that also fought for women's suffrage. The Southern Women's Suffrage Association was also founded to help women gain voting rights. Laura Clay, of Kentucky. Clay wanted to express the views of the southern women without too much reference to the National Association. Though both groups of women were fighting to gain voting rights, the only difference was that the Southern Women's Suffrage Association reached out to women on a local level, and the National Women's Suffrage Association reached out to women all across the nation. The women worked very hard to gain their rights, and they eventually got what they had worked so hard to get. On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was passed, and it granted American women the right to vote. The 19th Amendment was also called the "Anthony Amendment," in honor of one of the most influential suffragist leaders, Susan B. Anthony....
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