Women 's Suffrage During The Nineteenth Century

Women, like black slaves, were treated unequally from the male before the nineteenth century. The role of the women played the part of their description, physically and emotionally weak, which during this time period all women did was took care of their household and husband, and followed their orders. Women were classified as the “weaker sex” or below the standards of men in the early part of the century. Soon after the decades unfolded, women gradually surfaced to breathe the air of freedom and self determination, when they were given specific freedoms such as the opportunity for an education, their voting rights, ownership of property, and being employed.

My topic of choice is the background behind the 19TH Amendment of the United States. Voting is important in the United States because its shows that we’re a part of a movement that allows us to vote for whose best for running our country. Well what if you were denied this right not because of your race, but your gender? Women were denied the right to vote for years because men felt that they weren’t an important part of decision making in America. They believed we were already busy with raising children, taking care of the home, and “serving” our husbands, that we shouldn’t have to deal with the pressure of voting.

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

Suffragists advocated for women 's enfranchisement to not only secure political rights for female, but also for social equality between genders. This is supported by the information that is outlined in the Declaration of Sentiments, which was written during the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. As a matter of fact, this convention initiated and set the notion of women 's enfranchisement into motion. In the declaration, pro-suffragist men and women implied that females were not treated equally to their male peers but repressed by the traditional values and ideas of the society. They also suggested that a woman did not have a legal entity under the law. Thus, the individual freedoms which are outlined in the Bill of Rights did not directly apply to women. Suffragists were convinced that in order to improve the social conditions of women, it was necessary for her to be politically represented, which can only be achieved by gaining the right to vote. It is essential to note that when referring to the social conditions, suffragists are pointing out issues, such as, women receiving smaller wages than men. Other social issues include: women having to give up the full child custody to her husband after divorce; women being discouraged from attending higher educational institutes; and more.

Since the early 1800’s women began to fight for their rights. They began to get tired of their everyday life and decided to change things up. They began with wanting to be seen as equals with the men. They wanted to work and make their own money. But most of all they wanted to vote.

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 idea of women gaining the right to vote was one such of a tale. Men, and women never thought they would see the day where women were considered equal suffragists. Until August 18, 1920 when the nineteenth amendment was ratified into the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony died before they could see the day where women would become equal. Carrie Chapman Catt worked hand in hand with Susan B. Anthony, and served as the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Alice Paul served as a role model for women. She worked for women’s suffrage while in jail, and proved to her opponents, that the day where women could vote would come. Though these women did not always work together, working towards the same cause allowed them to accomplish their true dream: women’s suffrage.

“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.

Women, for a long time, were one of the most undervalued assets essential to life in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Throughout recorded history, women have been treated as less than men. They have been viewed as simply a vessel for reproduction or a maid to do housework and prepare meals for her husband. In many ancient cultures and some cultures today women are viewed merely as possessions. Surprisingly, women were even oppressed in the United States, which was founded upon freedom and equality. Women have been struggling to shed the chains of motherhood and be recognized as equal human beings for as long as written records have been around. The unequal treatment of women was often based on religion or tradition. The United States did not

We chose women’s suffrage because we believe it is a big part of history that people underestimate. After the loss of women’s rights to vote, Elizabeth Cady Stanton took a stand and helped the atification of the 19th Amendment. Women were and are a huge part of our society before losing their rights.

Looking at women suffrage, history shows us a drive for equality; a want for equal political rights between men and women. Women began work to solve the problem that was in between them and the vote in 1848. They worked hard for these rights, and it was not an easy task to accomplish. Along the way women were doubted and said to only be useful for the day-to-day household chores. In the end, however, women were able to prove that they can do anything men can do.

The passage of women’s suffrage was a long journey which included many conventions and organizations to kick it off. Women’s suffrage was an idea that came from the women’s rights movement, which held conventions. These conventions were a big attribute to the passage of women’s suffrage. Women’s suffrage first became a political issue when it was brought up in 1848 at the Seneca Falls convention, located in Seneca Falls, New York. Five women, four of which were Quaker rights activists, called the two day long convention. The resolution of the convention was a declaration of sentiments, signed by one hundred of the three hundred people who attended the convention. After this convention, women’s rights activists were determined to keep fighting

Women always tried to find a way they could fight for their country just like men did. They willing offered and volunteered. Women fought for more than 200 years to obtain the rights only white men were guaranteed. While women worked to help free slaves, they noticed similarities to the unfair matters to their situation. Why did women not have the same rights as men?

The women’s movement from the early 20th century had numerous goals, with the foremost being women having the right to vote. Along with suffrage, this movement sought change in many areas such as alcohol abuse, child labor laws, and political practices. While as a whole the women’s movement wanted progress on these issues, there were differences of opinion on how to get them done. One side was more temperate and less aggressive in their demands, while the other side believed in a more aggressive and direct approach to getting issues passed. These two would fight over how to get women’s suffrage passed as an amendment to the Constitution. The more peaceful of the two groups, known as NAWSA, or the National American Women’s Suffrage Association,

Not only were women voting for their nation’s officials, they were some of the ones being elected. Starting in as early as 1866, women had been running for various public offices and in some rare cases they won the election. For example, Susanna Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas in 1887; Martha Hughes Cannon was elected to the Utah State Senate in 1896; and Jeannette Rankin entered the United States House of Representatives in 1917. By the 1920s, women had become more involved in government and were being elected in greater numbers. They had the opportunity and power to organize laws and bills that they had