The Suffrage Of The United States

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.

The Progressive Era, from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth century (1898-1919), was a time when women were learning and adjusting to the differences in America. Women had different goals they wanted to achieve. Women from different classes had different targets that they strived for. Some women wanted to be equals with all people and have the rights that they deserved to have. Others just tried to make life better and happier for themselves and their family.

The book, Beyond Suffrage; Women in the New Deal, presents the role of women in the 1930’s in a much different light than many people think of it. The goal of this book is to enlighten the reader as to what role women played in politics during the New Deal. Because of it’s broad view I have taken several specific examples from the book and elaborated on them in order to give you a better understanding.

The Framers of the Constitution purposely left the power to set suffrage qualifications to each State. Suffrage means the right to vote. Franchise is synonym for the right to vote. The electorate is all of the people entitled to vote in given election. The right to vote was limited to white males that owned property in America in 1789 when Constitution can into effect. Today, the size of the American electorate is greater than 230 million people. Nearly all citizens at least 18 years of age can qualify to vote. The history of American suffrage since 1789 has been marked by two long term trends. The first growing federal control over suffrage and second the elimination of voting restrictions.

In the 1900’s women did not have the same rights as men. They weren’t allowed to do certain things and are not considered equal. Once women started to protest this, the whole nation got involved and there were some disagreements. The amendment was first proposed in 1878 to Congress but not seriously considered. In the early 1900’s a Representative proposed the Susan B. Anthony Amendment to allow women the right to vote. After the amendment passed in the House of Representatives, the Senate also passed the amendment. The vote then went to the states and it was one shy state away from the two thirds requirement and it was all up to Tennessee to break the vote. The decision was all up to Republican Harry T. Burn who was against the amendment but his mom was the one to change his mind. With a change in Tennessee’s vote the amendment officially passed the nineteenth amendment on June 4, 1919. The whole question is who supported and who opposed the passing of the nineteenth amendment? The people who obviously supported the nineteenth amendment were the women across the nation. Some more than others but in some way all women wanted to be treated equal. There were even some men who supported the amendment like Frederick Douglass who was a former African-American slave. Even though it seems like a lot of people want this amendment to pass and agree to equal rights, there were people who did oppose to the passing of the amendment. Being mostly men, an even bigger group disagreed with

The Progressive Era was a time period where many new ideas and activities formed. The Progressive Era held many legacies but of those there are two that were the most important, woman suffrage and government reform.

In Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1916, women achieved the moral to vote. There were three acts that entitled that women were able to vote. Manitoba were the first ones who passed the law that allowed women to be able to vote. Shortly subsequent to Saskatchewan passed its Act and lastly, Alberta. The acts include the Manitoba Election Act, the Saskatchewan Election Act and The Equal Suffrage Statutory Law Amendment Act which Alberta passed in 1916.

What if you’ve been given a million dollars to spend, what would yo do with it? During the Progressive Era(1900), there were a lot of issues with Conservation, Women’s suffrage, Child Labor, and Food Safety where people were upset with the U.S. and the way they had to live, So on 1913 there is an opportunity to distribute $1,000,000 amongst three sectors. There’s an opportunity to distribute/donate to Conservation since the U.S. would pollute their land and cut trees which cause major environmental/natural issues. To add on there’s a chance to distribute/donate to women’s suffrage since during the 1900’s the U.S. had unequal rights for women, and women weren’t able to vote which causes major issues/Civil Unrest between the women of the U.S.

“The only Question left to be settled now is: Are Women Persons?” Susan Brownell Anthony inquired in a speech she divulged during the 1800s after she was arrested and fined for voting the year before (women 's rights to the suffrage pg. 2). During the 1900s, and many years before that, women became vile to the fact of feeling suppressed. Two particular women became repulsive to the fact that women voting was a taboo subject. Because of the impact, these women had on the society, The women 's suffrage movement took place. Eventually, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, causing acceptance to women voting. Due to the hardiments of determined female’s, because of their hostile feelings toward women’s suffrage,

People had different opinions on women’s suffrage depending on various reasons such as their socioeconomic status, race, gender, and politics. Among the guests Mr. S. invited to his dinner party, John A. Moon and J. B. Sanford are opponents of the women’s suffrage. In his speech in House of Representatives, Moon expressed his concern about allowing the colored women to vote. He argued that the colored women’s suffrage would increase the number of uneducated voters, which could produce problems the society had to deal with. The other opponent, Sanford claimed different opinion to go against the women’s suffrage. Sanford described woman as being passive and dependent on man. He argued that woman did not need

“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.

70 years. Generations of women. Not a single drop of human blood shed in the fight for women’s right to vote. The women’s suffrage movement headed the creation of the 19th amendment. Women activists such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton dedicated their lifetime to fighting for gender equality that would be unimaginable to live without today. The ratification of the 19th Amendment significantly revolutionized women’s role in society and continues to affect American people today.

Furthermore, journalists known as Muckrakers played a big part in spreading progressivism socially and politically. These journalists set out to investigate and reveal the negativities in American society. Their goal was to expose problems and influence American society to fix social, economic and political problems. Muckrakers exposed corruption in business and government scandals. In addition, the journalists also portrayed bad working conditions. Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States, nicknamed these investigative journalists muckrakers. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress influenced TR to name the journalists muckrakers. Pilgrim’s Progress stated that a rake was used to dig up filth and muck. One of the most famous progressive reformers was also a muckraker, Ida Tarbell. Tarbell exposed the corrupt

The suffrage movement has entailed a long history of fighting for equality. Many organizations have developed, along with numerous campaigns and protests. The suffrage movement in the United States has dated back to the early 1840’s. During this time, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the Seneca Falls Convention. Shortly after in 1951, Susan B. Anthony joined the two previously states activists and they founded the Women’s National Loyal League (WNLL) in the main attempt to abolish slavery and gain full citizenship for African Americans and women. Shortly after slavery was abolished, Anthony and Stanton formed the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA), in 1869. This was delegated as being a more radical organization compared to the American Women Suffrage Association, founded by Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Josephine Ruffin. However, by 1890 these two organizations decided they would be more effective if they joined to form just one prominent organization: the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) ("Women’s Suffrage Movement").

The struggle to gain suffrage was not easy: anti-suffragists and the gender norms of society constantly interfered, leading to nearly a century-long battle of rights. Unlike preconceived notions about the suffrage movements of the nineteenth century, not all women wanted to obtain suffrage and women 's organizations weren 't always focused on the right to vote itself, but rather were radical. Change and new leadership were needed to refocus and improve women 's suffrage organizations in order to win against their enemy: the indifference of American women. "The Suffrage Renaissance: A New Image for a New Century, 1896-1910", written by Sara Hunter Graham, challenges those initial ideas and provides insight about how woman suffrage movements evolved. As the nineteenth century came to a close, the unification and rebirth of woman suffrage groups became crucial changes that led to obtaining suffrage.