Mary Terrell's Suffrage In America

Over the past five hundred years or so in america as the overall majority in Mankind, women comprise of the largest group in the world, but they are a vital asset in every aspect of our society. Woman and women's rights are tied hand in hand with american culture, which entails in these rights that they're dependent of social status, race, and geography in america like civil rights in the south. There were different types of economic changes for the different types of ethiniticities in America in which there were different of turning point that women won over their sufferage through their racial discrimination, these included the native american women, hispanic american, african americans and the chinese american women of the united states.

During the late 19th century, women were in a society where man was dominant. Women not having natural born rights, such as the right to vote, to speak in public, access to equal education, and so forth, did not stop them to fight for their rights. Women's lives soon changed when Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony played a prominent role to help bring about change.

September 23, 1863 in a Memphis church. Her mother was Louisa Ayers and her father was Bob

The fight for women’s suffrage went on for about seventy years. Crazy right? In the early 1800’s, women were considered second class citizens. The role that we see women have to was not nearly as close to the roll they had back then. A woman’s place was to be at home, baring children, taking care of the family and the home. They were not allowed to have any interest in anything but home and family; nor were they encouraged to pursue a career or have an education. Many women did not even have the right to own property. Women today would not be where they are if it weren’t for the women’s suffrage movement. The first fight for women’s suffrage started with the Seneca Falls Convention

It is such a great opportunity to write the letter to you, and talk about how important the women’s suffrage is for all women of the world. Through the letter you will know and understand what I have learned in abroad, and also I hope we could be really brave like those women who were in the women’s suffrage movement. We are from a country that women cannot be treated as same as men even in voting, but women voting is really important in any country of the world because it shows to the whole world that we are a very important part of a country, and we could help and vote for good movement and policy for politician to run our country. Women had been denied

All through American history women have frequently asked and ordered the right to vote. Roughly, they were prohibited. One of the first recorded noting of the request for women’s voting advantages were from Abigail Adams, who was the first lady of the second president. She asked her spouse in a letter to not ignore the right to vote for women. She primarily said that if women cannot vote, then they would not have a reason to pursue the new legislation acts.

The fight for women’s suffrage took over half a century. The reason women’s suffrage took over half a century because women were put on the back burner and told to wait their turn. For example,in the between years of 1865 and 1869, the Republican party were good friends with the feminist backing up the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendment. However, when women asked to have the amendment include women the Republican party denied them the right to vote. In result, the women divide from the Republican party in 1869 and created the National American Women's Suffrage Association .

Furthermore, it encouraged the election of Indian members to office by ensuring that covered jurisdictions could would use single-member districts, as opposed to at-large elections, when electing members to office. Therefore, by 1965 all United States citizens were given the right to vote, and the federal government undertook precautions to ensure that states could not disenfranchise people based on their race, religion, or gender.

“Remember the ladies”, wrote boldly by the soon to be First Lady Abigail Adams to her husband John Adams in March 1776. Abigail Adams’s words were one of the first noted mentions in the United States foreshadowing the beginning of a long suppressed battle towards women’s suffrage. The fight for women suffrage was a movement in which women, and some men included, pleaded for equal rights regarding voting and women’s voice within the political realm. Women’s suffrage was not a matter of instant success; it endured a prolonged time to achieve. It was not until August 1920, about 14 decades later after Abigail Adam’s words, that the 19th amendment which had provided everyone the right to vote regardless of a person’s “sex”, had passed. Although the 19th amendment nationalized equal voting rights in the country in 1920, many states ratified this amendment in even later years. The lengthy period and long complex battles towards victory were the result of many obstacles between suffragists and anti-suffragists; obstacles which hindered the movement’s progress and which are not limited to: traditionally accustomed values, religion, split arguments within the movement, and other national political setbacks. If these setbacks were handled differently in a more urgent manner, women suffrage might have achieved earlier than 1920 or in a shorter amount of gruesome activism period.

Since the enactment of the nineteenth amendment, which granted women suffrage during the late 1920s, a woman’s role in society has drastically changed. Perhaps the most drastic shift occurred during World War II when women successfully integrated into the workforce after most of the nation’s men left for war. Fast forward to the 21st century and women are seen in almost any career previously deemed as a man’s job from an engineer, mayor, chief executive officer, and so much more. At the surface, it seems as if the United States has achieved complete gender equality, but that could not be further from the truth. Women certainly have the same opportunities as men in this country, but we do not have the same resources.

Until August of 1920 women couldn’t vote. The issue wasn’t well-known until 1850 when the National Women’s Rights Convention was formed. After that, the issue was recognized and more groups like this were popping up. More women realized that this was an issue and fought to make it legal for women to vote.

In today’s American society, the right to vote is often taken for granted but it is important to remember that this basic right was not always granted to everyone. In years past, African Americans and women faced many obstacles when trying to obtain the right to vote. The Civil War, otherwise known as the War Between the States, brought about many changes within the United States of America. One of the most significant changes resulting from this time of war was the expansion of voting rights to more citizens. The Fifteenth Amendment, which was passed after the Civil War, forbids the federal and state governments from denying a citizen of the United States the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of

“The women worker need bread, but she needs roses too.”, Rose Schneiderman said back in 1911. Gender Inequality dates all the way back to the 1900’s. A lot happened in the 1900’s, like the fight for equality and what women did to get their rights. Today man and women are still fighting to make it right.

Victoria Woodhull was a leader for women’s suffrage during the 1970s and made the charge on numerous issues she believed that could solve the sexual immorality in the United States. She continued her campaign for women’s suffrage, but she was widely considered as a negative symbol of the women’s suffrage movement. Woodhull’s views were considered radical as she declared free love and wish to completely overhaul the idea of marriage (Friskin, pg. 94). Her radical views also resulted in accusing numerous men and sometimes women of adultery and other crimes to destroy their reputation and prove the sexual immorality of the country (Friskin, pg. 94). While her crusade of bringing injustices to the public, it caused many of her supporters such as the American Women Suffrage Association to revoke their support for Woodhull. Woodhull would later be used as an example for the anti-suffragist as her radical views and scandals surrounding her created a picture of what women suffrage could result in.

An American leader of women's suffrage movement, who believed in free love; the right to marry, divorce, and support children without government. Victoria Woodhull is known for being the first women to run for president, even before women had the right to vote. Victoria Woodhull is considered a rebel because of her views in women rights and went against the government to fight for them.