Voting throught the History of the United States: Not Living Up to the Founding Fathers´ Ideals

Women also had the right to vote, but some women didn’t use that right because they had believed it was for men. Though other women saw this as a chance to get involved with politics. Women

We know that women did not have the right to vote in the United States from the time they were granted freedom from Great Britain in 1776, all the way up until 1920, but why did they not have the right to vote? Women during that 144 year span had virtually no rights at all. Many people had the mindset that since women could not fight for their country, they did not deserve the right to vote. Men viewed women as their weaknesses, not someone who is equal to

Another major foreign policy action was the entry to World War I. On August 4, 1914 there was an outbreak in Europe. A war started between the central powers and the allied powers. The central powers consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungry, and the Ottoman Empire. They were also known as the Triple Alliance. The Allied Powers, also know as the Triple Entente consisted of Britain, France, and Russia. An immediate cause of the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. Some long term causes that started the war were militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism. America tried to keep themselves isolated from the war in Europe. Before the war, America had an idea of neutrality. Neutrality is when American lives and property is not threatened. There was great ethnic diversity in the United States which led to a public union about war. The United States also had the idea of freedom of the seas. This meant the routes for trading were open. The United States had the desire to trade with both the central and the allied powers. The United States had a great economic interest in the war at this time. There were many different

This photo captures American women voting for the first time after the 19th Amendment was passed on August 26, 1920. Women were always thought of less than man and were expected to stay home and take care of the children. They lacked important rights such as voting, being able to own property, and having legal claim to any money they might earn. But after about seventy years women proved that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Gaining the right to vote was a historical step for women in America that was achieved through hard work and perseverance.

America wanted to expand their foreign policy to help boost their economy. They felt threatened because not only did they have to compete with countries like Germany and Japan to secure access to Chinese markets. The first foreign policy the U.S. had was the Monroe Doctrine, which closed the Western Hemisphere to further colonization from European countries. This secured the U.S. foreign trade with Central America. The American foreign policy warned European nations to stay away from the Western Hemisphere while the U.S. also competed for trade in the Eastern Hemisphere.

In most modern governments, such as the United States of America, give the right to vote to almost every responsible adult citizen. There were limiters on the right to vote when the US Constitution was written, and the individual states were allowed to setup their own rules governing who was allowed to vote. Women were denied the right to vote until the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution which was passed in 1920. In order to understand how women struggled to obtain the right to vote, some key factors must be looked at in further detail; why suffrage rights were not defined in the Constitution, the efforts that women put forth to obtain the right to vote, why there are present-day restrictions on

When voting was first introduced, men were only allowed to vote. In rising demand on the labor market,young, and urban women joined men in boycotting the prohibition. Later on women were given the right to vote (Paragraph 3) (The Roaring Twenties). Ratification of the suffrage amendment to the constitution closes a conflict. It will eventually set free 25,000,000 women (Paragraph 1)

Woman didn’t have the right to vote but they had many opportunities to get that right to vote! One action women used to get their right to vote is picketing at the White House. They stood in front of the White House wearing graduation dresses and chanted for women’s rights to vote. They stood their everyday all day 24/7 just to convince the president. They had many different women stand out there and some of them got arrested for picketing because riots started with the woman. They attacked them because they didn’t like the woman and they had treated the women like property.Another way women got their rights to vote was hunger strike. Woman like Alice Paul would not eat because she didn’t want all the woman in the world to not have rights

From its foundation, the U.S. favored neutrality and isolationism in global affairs. We were successful in upholding this policy in the many years prior to World War II, and even as war broke out in Europe and around the world, President Roosevelt insisted that the U.S. should stay out of the conflict. In a 1940 campaign speech regarding the war, Roosevelt is famous for saying, “I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars,” (history.co.uk). Strict Neutrality Acts were passed by Congress in affirmation of this policy, imposing a general embargo on warring

hen women wanted the right to vote, they used many tacticts to gain their right.

Before the American Revolution, men and women were held under the British reign of the king. But when they war was over, only white men with land were allowed to vote (Jansson). For years women fought for the right to vote, watching their husbands and sons vote before they were able to vote. African American men and women also faced the challenges of obtaining the right to vote. Their fight for the chance to vote affected so much of our history. Once they obtained the right to vote, shifts occurred in our nation for the better.

right to vote when the 19th amendment got ratified in the year 1920. Before the 19th amendment, only 4 states gave women the right to vote. The western states gave women the right to vote so that more people could come to their states. The women suffrage was run by strong women. Two of the women were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady. The women got the right to vote because they have been fighting for their rights since 1775, women were striking for their rights at their job to so that they can be equal as men, the women’s right convention that opened the new possibility for women, and the 4 states that gave women rights before the 19th amendment.

Women began to speak out against the laws that were deliberately set against them. Throughout this time period, women were denied the right to vote in all federal and most state held elections. Women

Many immigrants came to America seeking freedom, jobs, and land while others were running from famine and war. While immigrants ran from the problems of their native land, they were running into new problems in America. Americans feared the immigrants would take their jobs or have the right to vote. This fear caused discrimination against the immigrants due to their diverse backgrounds from Germany, Ireland, and China. Immigrants that came to America faced the hardship of discrimination because they did not only stand out with their culture but also because Americans didn’t necessarily want them in America.

In the United States everyone did not have the right to vote. The 2 groups of people that did not have the right to vote are women and slaves. I know this because in the text it said that "women and slaves cant vote". In the text it states that "women did not get the right to vote until (1920). The text also states that the slaves didn't get the right to vote until The 14th Amendment came out.It is important that everyone gets the right to vote because everyone should have a voice/choice in what they want.