Divine Rebellion Anne Hutchinson

“Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!” These were the famous words of a key leader in the women’s Suffrage Movement, Susan B. Anthony. In the past, the rights guaranteed to men were not applied to women, and therefore caused great injustice. It wasn’t until the mid-1800s that women started to take a stand and fight for their voting rights. As a result, these actions caused a positive impact in our country and now, women have equal rights as men, as it should. There are some that say that it is just another part of history and that there is no importance behind it, in other words, it is irrelevant compared to the Civil Rights Movement for example. Women’s suffrage was a positive impact through the leadership of Susan B. Anthony, their hard work and contributions, and their succession in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

The Women 's Suffrage Movement impacted the United States by giving women the right to have a voice and to finally be able to vote. Achieving the right to vote was the culminating event of the Women 's Suffrage Movement. The Women 's Suffrage Movement was also known as Women 's Suffrage. The movement was the struggle for women to be able to vote and run for president. It was also closely linked to the women 's right movement. In the mid 19th century women in several different countries, mostly the United States and Britain began forming organizations to fight for suffrage.

The battle for suffrage was a long and slow process. Many women tried to initiate the fight for suffrage, like Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. “These were the New Suffragists: women who were better educated, more career-oriented, younger, less apt to be married and more cosmopolitan than their previous generation.” (pg 17) Eventually, in 1920, the 19th amendment was ratified; allowing women to vote, but it was not any one person or event that achieved this great feat. It was the confluence of certain necessary factors, the picketing and parades led by Alice Paul, militaristic suffrage parties and the influence of the media that caused the suffrage amendment to be passed and ratified in 1920. But most importantly, they successfully moved both

In the 1920’s women suffrage was a substantial impact because that year women gained the right to vote and run for office. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right (“The Fight” par. 1). Before the Election Day in 1920, women didn’t have the right to vote or basically do anything a man could do. Women fought against the court and formed multiple groups until they made a change in the law, to let women vote. Many American women were tired of being known as an unimportant role in their generation. They were beginning to become annoyed with what historians referred them as which was “a pious, submissive wife and mother concerned exclusively with home and family” (“The Fight” par. 2). “All of these contributed to a new way of thinking about what it meant to be a women and a citizen in the United States”(“The Fight” par. 2). “The suffrage movement in the United States gained prominence with the first women’s rights convention in the world”(“Women’s Suffrage” par. 5). Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the convention in 1848. “American

In A Woman’s Crusade, Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot, Mary Walton argues how important it is for women to actively know the history with their equality rights, and how Alice Paul and other women fought so hard for those rights throughout time. All through time women have fought for the right to vote, equal rights in the workplace, and rights for our own body, these fights have been so important for woman to move on in our society to been seen as equals and not the weaker sex. Moving back in time with Mary Walton’s book “A Woman’s Crusade,” in the early stages of women’s suffrage is an inspiring crusade of inspiration. Alice Paul started her early days as an eighth generation American Quaker, living a life as a Quaker Alice Paul

Activism has fought for gender equality in America. The woman suffrage movement gave the opportunity of gender equality in America. It began in the 1850s but was lost focused of until after the Civil War ended. The movement was formed by women activist and some men too. The movement’s goal was to gain equality of gender, that women would be able to vote, gain the same responsibilities that came with citizenship and end woman suffrage. The movement included parades, speeches, protests. Many people disagreed that women should have rights to vote and be a full citizen so there were many arguments. The Women’s Movement accomplish to win the right to vote as a women. FRom the movement, new women cafe, newspapers, and bookstores were opened. Not only that but, clinics and refuge for women and help for those in the presence of domestic violence and sexual abuse.

Women from all over the world have been faced with many difficult problems since the beginning of time. Women in the past have had to fight for their rights of education, freedom, sexual choices, and their freedom to work. Women today still face problems because of their gender, but times are slowly but surely changing. Before the Revolution women had no say in any activities they participated in. Women had to obey their husbands, give them sex whenever they wanted, had no choice over reproductive patterns, were strictly in charge of taking care of the house and children, and were not allowed to leave the homestead. Joan R. Gundersen argues that the women of the American Revolution gained more than they had lost. She believed at that time the greatest changes appeared enhancing the lives of everyday women.

In U.S. history the roles of society were decided by gender, men’s role was mostly the same throughout history, but the women’s role changed slowly over time. There were many women who were fighting to change their roles and one such woman is Anne Marbury Hutchinson. In “Divine Rebel” Selma R. Williams tells the story of Anne Hutchinson, who was a Puritan woman of the late 1500s, and researched information was hard to find. There was a movement later that was called the Suffrage Movement and the women who were part of it suffered similar experiences as Anne Hutchinson. The thesis of this paper is that Anne Hutchinson fought for women’s rights as did the women of the Suffrage Movement and that comparing their experiences as well as their cultures in their time periods.

During Anne Hutchinson’s life at Massachusetts Bay, she had come upon a set of beliefs through her own studies and ideas with them help of John Cotton, a minister and theologian. From the reading, it appeared that her beliefs were different compared to the original Puritans. For instance, she believed that salvation only came from faith, enslaving Indians was wrong, and that God came to her through an “immediate revelation” without the need of the clergy. In result, this showed a threat to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. Also, it was even more of threat to the colony that a woman, not a man, had this insight along with the separate meetings. In the end, the colony saw this whole situation as a threat, challenge, or even a test against the

The Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century was incredibly intolerable towards any religious ideology that opposed the Puritan authority and when clashed with the ideals of Anne Hutchinson, the event forever marked the beginning of religious tolerance in the New England Colonies. The Massachusetts Bay Colony, like many other towns in New England “banished individuals for such offenses as criticizing the church or government” (Foner 71). As discussed in small group lecture, the community of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had become so hardened in their Puritan values that the sand that made up the community (the people) became glass. The values of the community Anne Hutchinson, a spiritual advisor with her own interpretations of the Bible, held the same view as

Born in Lincolnshire, England in 1591 Anne Hutchinson was a puritan spiritual advisor whose strong religious convictions caught the attention of many puritans in the New England area. She was a key role model in the developing time of New England’s colonies and was also recognized for her contribution to the history of women’s ministry. Hutchinson stood up for what she believed in, even when it wasn’t the popular opinion. She was and still is a role model for women and religious leaders all over the world.

Anne Hutchinson was a puritan that believed that the Holy Spirit was within her and that had the Holy Spirit within were not subject to the laws of man. Many believed that the conflicts she had with the clergy could lead to the destruction of the puritans religious experiments. As a woman challenging the clergy and other higher ups this was not something that women did in her times telling her "you have step out of your place"(Conlin,48) and that theses thing were not "fitting of you sex"(Conlin,48). They convicted her because the consider her a danger to the spiritual welfare of the people and banished her to Rhode

What is the meaning of Suffrage? It is the term used to describe the right to vote as a legal and natural born right. When people are without it, they work hard to eventually get it because they want to become equal to others. Without having the ability to vote, one cannot have a say in what goes on around them. The most powerful period for women and their fight for the right to vote was from 1890 to 1920. Women believed that if they had the same rights as men at that time that all their issues would be solved. They had a lot of troubles and without being able to vote, they believed that they would have difficulties of changing the future for themselves and their daughters. The women 's situation in the 1900s seemed unpromising. Everything

In the article, “Anne Hutchinson and the Puritan Attitude toward Women” it is talking about the role that women and men play amongst the Christian religion that the Puritan’s lives are based off of. These descriptions are being used to show why Anne Hutchinson was a threat to the government of the Puritans, which was ran by all men, and why it was unacceptable for her to be “preaching” not only to women, but also to men. The article also describes some religious reasons why a woman cannot preach and emphasizes that according to their religious views men were supposed to have the power. The most interesting part in the article was the role of the men because it related to a different article that the class has been discussing.

Between the late 1700’s and the early 1900’s many American women struggled to obtain the same rights as men. The society of women as a whole had pushed for equality constantly throughout the years. Women especially obtained more equality by publicizing their reasoning and demands for equality. This, is first and foremost proven by the way women had advocated greatly for improved academics for women. Women used another good tactical approach to achieve equality by speaking out strongly against inequalities between the genders.A third example of a great leap for equality, would be the religious movement, the upsurge in religious enthusiasm allowed women to demonstrate their piety and even to found new sects; and this in turn led to change in the way the world viewed women.