Women's Suffrage History

In 1848 women decided that they wanted to have a voice. Women from all over the United States became tired of listening and abiding by the rules that men put in place. Many men thought all women were good for was cooking, cleaning, and caring for the children. When the country went to war women were left behind to take care of everything while the men were gone. This was an eye opener for most women, and that is when they came to the conclusion they were good for more. There was so much women were not allowed to do that men could, and a lot of it could only change if women had the right to vote.

“Beginning in the 1800s, women organized petitioned and pocketed to won three right to vote but it took them decades to accomplish their purpose”(archive.com). The organized movement started at Seneca Falls, NY with a meeting called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. The most influential leaders during the movements were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The Suffragists and Suffragettes were trying to prove to the public that women could be doing other things apart from looking after the children and taking care of the homes. The Seneca Falls convention was organized by a group of women who had been active in the antislavery movement. The Seneca Falls Declaration called for an increase in women’s rights in these areas, as well as in education for women and the jobs available to

Women’s suffrage in the United States began in the nineteenth century and continued into the twentieth century until the nineteenth amendment was passed in 1920 to give women the right to vote. Women’s rights activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony protested the fifteenth amendment that was passed in 1869 because the amendment unfairly did not include women. While Anthony and Stanton protested this proposed amendment other activists such as Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe fought against the women’s suffrage movement by saying that if African-Americans got their right to vote women would gain theirs soon after. The conflict that arose from the two sides butting heads gave way to the formation of two organizations, the National Women’s Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. The National Women’s Suffrage Association fought for women’s right to vote at a federal level, they also fought for married women to have the same rights as their husbands in regards to property. The American Woman Suffrage Association took a slightly different approach by attempting to get women the right to vote through much simpler means of the state legislature. The women involved in these movements finally got their day in Washington on January 12, 1915 as a women’s suffrage bill was brought before the House of Representatives but

This section on women's history will show the events that led to the suffrage movement and what the outcome was after the movement, plus how those events are involved in today's society. The women of the post suffrage era would not have the ability to the wide variety of professions were it not for their successes in the political arena for that time. In the early 1900’s when women were barred from most professions and limited in the amount of money they could earn, a group of suffragists led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton started to develop the women into an influential and powerful leaders of this country. The original women who started the suffrage movement had nothing to

There are people, groups, and events that helped women gain equal rights as women. The Seneca Falls Conventions occurred in 1848 and Congress were introduced to the amendment granting women’s suffrage in 1878. (Document 3) After many women began to realize that their rights were limited, about 300 women and men came to the Seneca Falls Convention. The Seneca Falls Convention occurred on July 19 to 20 in the year of 1848. It was the first convention on women’s right and everything except women’s suffrage was approved. Women suffrage is the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton ,Lucretia Mott and Frederick Douglass were one of the many that fought for women's suffrage. Lucretia Mott was one of the leading women abolitionist and decided it

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 .

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.

In 1848, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton held a meeting in New York to speak about women fighting for the same equal rights as men were given in the Constitution. This convention produced the Declaration of Sentiments therefore starting the women’s rights movement in the United States. The focal point of this movement became the right to vote. Another strong female advocate for women’s civil rights was Alice Paul whom in 1916 founded the National Women’s Party to fight for women’s suffrage. A year later, Alice and other advocates for women’s civil rights chained themselves

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.

On the other hand, women started to fight for their rights at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twenty century “the changes came in part because of practical problems of maintaining property, inheritance, and settlement in new states and territories” (Lowi 109) since women at that time could not own property. The women suffrage movement was created and with this many women and men contribute to the “National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) [which] was formed in New York, and it immediately began an effort to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow women to vote” (Lowi 109). It wasn’t until 1919 that “Congress ratified the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote… the amendment was ratified by the states,

The fight for women's suffrage in the United States occurred over the course of many

People could no longer refuse to allow women the right to vote; they had proved that they should be seen as equals to men because of their acts of civil disobedience. They had also justified themselves with all the work they had contributed during the war. Showing society that women were entitled to citizenship just as much as any man (History). The National American Women’s Suffrage Association (Nawsa) and the NWF's efforts had finally paid off, “On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment, providing full voting to women nationally was ratified.” (Historynet) Allowing women to vote led to women getting jobs, even in the senate and

The goal of the suffrage movement was to gain political freedom by advocating the right to vote with the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920. In 1848, a convention known as the Seneca Falls, was held in New York by a woman named Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton was an American suffragist, born in New York, and believed that women should be granted the same rights as men. At this convention, issues regarding that women should be given the right to vote as well as be given more opportunities for education and work were being discussed. Over 300 people, mostly women but several men, had also attended. This event marked the first step towards equality for all women. After the Seneca Falls convention, the idea of granting women voting rights was

he film also made me question what role black women played within the suffrage movement. Much to my delight, I discovered a number prominent activists during my initial research.  How was it that I did not know them? I had been familiar with Sojourner Truth's story ever since I was a kid in grade school. However, names like Anna J. Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, and Nannie Helen Burroughs were all foreign to me. As a woman of African descent, this new information gave me a deep sense of pride. Yet I was also ashamed because their contributions have always been around, as a matter of public record. I was simply unaware of them. Bringing the stories of black women in suffrage to light is my mission and a labor of love. And as a history geek, I'm

The Women’s Suffrage Movement was a political struggle, in which women protested and assembled to vote and run for office. The idea that women could not vote, run for office, be represented in the workplace, nor serve on juries contradicted early ideas that the American woman was a protector of the concepts of freedom and righteousness. The American suffrage movement originated from the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 (history.com). At this convention, women alongside a few men worked to write the Declaration of Sentiments, which would start the initial idea to fight for the rights of women and provide a list of grievances in reference to the rights of women such as: voting rights, property rights, and educational rights (Snider 2016). However, women would not receive suffrage until the post-Civil War era. Several leaders as well as movements would have to amalgamate over the course of several decades for the voice of women to be heard and changes to be made in accordance to law and society.