...During the 1800’s, women were to considered to be property of their husband. Everything a woman earned and owned belonged to the husband as well. Similar to today, women felt inferior to men. As a citizen, women thought that they had equal responsibilities. They felt as though they were morally superior to men and if there was more participation by women in politics then it would be a better process. They also thought that if it were more women participation, they would create social change. What is women’s suffrage? Women’s suffrage is a women’s right to vote. In 1848, the first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls New York. During this convention the “Declaration of Sediments" was written. This document served as an agenda for the movements that were about to take place over the 7 decades to come. Throughout the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, women fought for their right to vote. An organization called the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) was created to establish an amendment that allowed women to vote. Significant Women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Carrie Chapman Catt worked diligently for the equality for women, as well as the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony worked closely together for women’s suffrage. In 1866 they formed the American Equal Rights Association (AERA), which was dedicated specifically for suffrage regardless of gender or race. In 1869, AERA was overlooked by the 15th amendment which...
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...Women’s Suffrage Women’s suffrage was one of the Largest movements in American History. In 1920 there was a turning point for all women and their rights, they were given the right to vote. However, before women had the right to vote, women such as Elizabeth Stanton, Anna Howard, Lucretia Mott, and Carrie Catt, fought hard to get women the rights they very much deserved. Not only was it a turning point politically, but socially as well. And because of the right granted to vote it opened many doors for women all around and gave women that still to this day they have. Leading up to the 19th amendment, there were some women that helped get the amendments approved. When it comes down to fighting against women’s suffrage, there were three...
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...country that counted them as second rate citizens. That would change, when two women devoted their lives to the fight for women’s suffrage which would begin a journey to equality that women are still embarking on today. Starting in 1848 women have been struggling for equal rights, the struggle has been a continuous issue, even up to modern day. Women were successful in creating equal rights in most aspects but, women still lack equality today. The fight for equal rights...
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...In 1869, a 15th amendment to the Constitution was proposed that would allow men of any race the right to vote. Many felt that the amendment should also include people of any gender and were frustrated that the rights of women were put on the back burner while the rights of more men were being strengthened; others supported the amendment fully despite the exclusion of gender. Because of this, a split occurred within the movement and two separate Suffrage Associations were formed, the National Woman’s Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). These groups also differed in how they went about procuring the right to vote: the NWSA supported an amendment to the Constitution while the AWSA felt that they would be more successful trying to change individual state’s...
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...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 Falls Convention and is still going on today, reveals a long and arduous struggle. This paper will explore the origins, the early history, the advancements in the 1900’s, the final outcome, and finally the fight for women’s equal rights that still exists today. According to the National Women’s History Museum, “In the early 1800’s, women were second class citizens. Women were expected to...
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...being free). Although they were progressing in these areas, they failed to move forward in allowing woman to have equal rights. In order for woman to come together to fight for their rights to vote as equal citizens, two organizations were formed; The National Woman Suffrage Association(NWSA) which was led by Karrie Chapman Katt, founded by Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in 1869 and the Bostonbased American Woman Suffrage Association(AWSA), led by Julia Ward Howe and Lucy Stone. The NWSA was aiming towards passing a constitutional amendment that would provide them the right to vote whereas the AWSA reckoned that the preeminent strategy for getting woman the right to vote was to convince state governments first. The two different groups realized that they both just wanted the right to vote and that by splitting up it was making themselves weak so they decided to combine and create the National American Woman Suffrage Association or NAWSA. In 1915 Carrie Chapman Catt became the NAWSA leader who was trying to push the nation into getting woman the right to vote. Many people didn’t approve of what the woman were doing, and that woman were below men so they shouldn’t vote. These people were called antisuffragists and a lot of them were politicians who repudiated this. If woman got the right to vote it would benefit woman of course but it would also benefit society and the government. Woman think about the world and problems all of the time, and they think on how can we not only make the...
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...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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...Anthony tried to vote in the presidential election of 1872 -which was illegal for women at the time- she was fined $100 at her trial. In response to this, she said, “Not a penny shall go to this unjust claim.” She ended up not paying the fine. So passionate in her support of women’s suffrage, she only focused on the movement to the point of restricting NAWSA’s goal to just women’s rights and ignored African American’s civil rights. While this caused an outrage with her African American colleagues and contradicted her own morals, she was determined to collect support for women’s suffrage at any cost. She even went to the point of avoiding Frederick Douglass -who was the first man to publicly announce his support for women’s suffrage- in Atlanta, Georgia and admitted, “I myself asked Mr. Douglass not to come. . . . I did not want anything to get in the way of bringing the Southern white women into our suffrage association." However, Anthony wouldn’t have been so fervent about working towards women’s rights and suffrage if it weren’t for her...
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...There are many figures in that helped shape American society, but Susan B. Anthony is one figure that deserves praise for all her accomplishments, influence on politics, and influence on time period. Without her contributions, modern society wouldn’t be close to what it is now. Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 from Daniel and Lucy Anthony. Both of Anthony’s parents encouraged her to push toward her cause. Daniel Anthony was a Quaker, believing in the idea that everybody should think independently and speak their mind. Lucy Anthony enlightened her daughter by becoming an icon for the burdens of marriage, igniting a reason to accomplish all that Anthony did ( Batten ). Starting out, Susan B, Anthony became a teacher and a headmistress...
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...Jocelyn Chapman 9/24/14 4th hour/ Mr.Poynter Women’s Suffrage Movement Women’s Suffrage is a subject that changed history of the United States. The entire history of the right for women to vote takes many twists and turns but it eventually turned out alright. This paper will take a explain some of these twists and turns along with some of the major figures involved in the suffrage movement. The first recorded instance in American history where a woman demanded the right to vote was in 1647. Margaret Brent, a property owner in Maryland wanted two votes in the newly formed colonial assembly to represent her vote and the vote of Lord Baltimore who she held power-of-attorney. The governor eventually turned down her demands. The 1790 constitution of New Jersey allowed women property owners the right to vote through a loophole that stated that “all inhabitants” that met property and residence requirements could vote. This loophole was closed in 1807 by a state legislator that had almost lost an election due to a women’s voting block. Other than these isolated incidents the first organized women’s suffrage movement can be traced back to the mid 1800’s with the Seneca Falls Convention. The organized movement started at Seneca Falls, NY with a meeting called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. (National Women's History Museum, 2007) Both women received their start in the women’s suffrage movement by being active in the abolitionist movement. Stanton and Mott attended...
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...Women’s Suffrage Movement David Mondor U.S. History 1865 to 1945 Paul Sadler February 19, 2005 Abstract The Women’s Suffrage Movement can trace its roots, back to Anne Hutchinson’s conviction and expulsion in 1637 for sedition in Massachusetts. This movement has had many achievements, disappointments, and internal disagreements, throughout its history, the right to vote given, then taken away, many times before it became enshrined in the United States Constitution. Through ratification by 36 states of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, women finally had the same rights as men, the right to be considered citizens and vote, the right to be considered equal to men. This struggle for equality and voting rights we discuss in this paper. Women’s Suffrage Movement Women’s Suffrage in America began in 1637 when Anne Hutchinson dared to defy church leaders, with her thoughts on religion. This contemptuous display of women’s rights at a time when women were considered the property of men landed Anne, before a tribunal of men. They convicted her of ‘sedition’ and expelled her from Massachusetts’s colony. Mary Dyer, having been the only person to stand up for Anne during her trial, was also expelled a few months later from the colony, along with her husband William. In 1652 Mary Dyer visited England for five years and during that time she joined the Society of Friends, the Quaker religion founded by George Fox. Returning to New England, Dyer headed back to the Massachusetts’s Bay...
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...struggle today with maintaining equal rights. Women in the United States have faced a long and arduous road towards acquiring equal rights in the eyes of the government and still fight today to be seen as equals in all that they do. From the time before the Civil War until present day the issue of equal rights for women has been fought for by many activists. Women have struggled with issues such as the right to vote in elections and receive equal pay for equal work in the workplace. There have been many victories in the battle to become equal citizens by women, but there have also been many setbacks throughout the history of our country. In 1868 one of the pioneers of the women’s movement Elizabeth Stanton gave a speech to the Women’s Suffrage Convention entitled the Destructive Male. “Twenty years earlier, at Seneca Falls, New York, she had helped to launch the women’s right movement in America.”(History, Art & Archives 2013) In her speech she outlined how masculinity offered elements of negativity to the world and that a woman’s touch would be needed to help counter balance this fact. “The male element is a destructive force, stern, selfish, aggrandizing, loving war, violence, conquest, acquisition, breeding in the material and moral world alike discord, disorder, disease, and death.” (Stanton, Elizabeth, 1868) Her speech at the convention is important because it outlined how women of the time actually felt about what was happening in the world when it pertained to their rights...
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...The Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery and African American slaves gained their freedom during the Civil War; however, this did not mean they were fully integrated into American society. After the war, Southern Whites faced a crisis. The emancipation of slaves and the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship undermined their assertion that citizenship was for Whites only. The clear line between Whites who ruled and Blacks who were ruled became vulnerable. Since Whites slave owners could no longer treat the former slaves as non-citizens, they sought to strengthen this distinction by restoring slavery as best they could. Imposing disabilities on Black civil rights that limited their access to full citizenship was a goal to reach. Within months of the Civil War’s end, former Confederate states passed Black Codes to regulate the behavior of the former slaves as well as their status. Congressional Reconstruction was still a year away, and white Democrats who governed state legislatures passed laws that restricted the liberty of the former slaves. Although Black Codes granted African American certain rights such as legalized marriage, ownership of property; the laws prohibited interracial marriage for the fear of weakening the White race, denied them the rights to testify against Whites in court, jury service and the right to vote. The Black Codes also forced African Americans to labor and constrained their freedom of movement. Individuals not under control of white land owners...
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...was a woman named Victoria Woodhull who ran for political office? You see, 168 years ago, in 1848, Women’s Rights began because women Couldn’t vote, this revolution lasted 72 years before women could finally vote in 1920. In the Victorian Era, scientists proved that women were by nature inferior to men. They even claimed that their skull size and brain were small. Well that’s wrong because women are smart and there are reports of women having a very high IQ, some higher than Albert Einstein. Most doctors of the Victorian period felt like women felt no or very little sexual desire and that only atypical women felt strong sexual desire. Why did so many states deny women the right to vote? In my...
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...improvement in workplace discrimination, and equal opportunities in education are some examples of these gains. Various prominent citizens have worked diligently throughout our history to accomplish equality for these groups using different methods. Some of these methods have worked better than others. Boycotts, peaceful marches and courtroom battles were some of the methods that brought better results. Many equality issues have affected minorities and women in our country. The fight for the right to vote was long and difficult for both groups. Although the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1870, granting all black men voting rights, (Jones et al, 2009, 373) it was not until after World War II that this right was realized. Women’s suffrage was an even longer battle. Begun in 1866, when women reformers attempted to secure this right along with African American’s right to vote, women would not gain the vote until ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 (Jones et al, 2009, 476). Equality in educational opportunities was another issue that faced both minorities and women. In the beginning, African American children were not allowed to attend school. After being allowed to attend, they were segregated from white children and given inferior facilities, books, and supplies. Women, who were at least allowed to go to school, fought mainly for equal opportunities to attend colleges...
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