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    The Inevitable: An Analysis of Carrie Chapman Catt’s Address to the United States Congress (1917) In November 1917, Carrie Chapman Catt, leader of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), gave an address to the United States Congress expressing her belief that woman’s suffrage was inevitable, and requesting that Congress see it as such and vote to pass the amendment. Catt’s speech was based on facts and figures (ethos) from our own country’s history, logic, reasoning, and common sense

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    The major reasons for women receiving in 1918 the vote in my opinion were divided into sections, political view, male view, war effort and changes in law and legislation. Whilst some historians argue that the women’s work during WWI in factories and other work programmes radically changed male ideas about their role in society other traditional historians suggest that the government passing the legislation to give women the vote in 1918 was almost a reward for their efforts I believe that this explanation

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    Women's Suffrage At the turn of the twentieth century, the ideal British woman in Great Britain was to maintain a demure manner, a composed façade. A delicate disposition with a distain for all things violent and vulgar. However, by this point in time, an increasing number of women were becoming ever more frustrated with their suppressed position in society. Women eventually went to extreme, militant measures to gain rights, especially to gain women the right to vote

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    The woman suffrage movement began in the late 1800’s, when the first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. The woman’s suffrage supporters worked to educate the public about the validity of woman suffrage. Under the leadership of Susan B. Anthony and other women’s rights supporters, circulated petitions and lobbied Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment to allow women’s equal rights. In the 1920 the suffrage movement gained the most movement when the National Woman's

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    federal vote for women in Mexico was a unique history to the Mexican Revolution. The nation was known as a great independent movement, which highly looking for economic modernization, and practice liberal ideals. Because they were lacked of education, Liberal was a big concerned for women and fear that women might harm and cause more problems to the progressive politics (Pablos 45, 60). The battle for the right to vote was only thought in England, Europe and United States. However, women in Mexico going

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    presidency, massive May Day suffrage parades were organized by the league and usually led by Anne Dallas Dudley with her children along side. In May 1914, Anne Dallas Dudley helped bring the National Suffrage Convention to her hometown where two-thousand women march from Nashville to Centennial Park, making it one of the largest conventions held in Nashville. A year later Anne was elected head of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association where she tried to introduce a suffrage amendment to the state constitution

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    Before 1918, women were considered to be very much within their own sphere of influence separate from men. Throughout the 19th century women had slowly been gaining voting privileges, but only in areas considered to be within their spheres such as the vote for school boards, the vote for poor law boards and the vote for county councils. Traditionally many historians have argued that the main reason for the enfranchisement of women in 1918 was their work during world war one. This view is being disputed

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    France and German army’s. World War I lasted from July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918. (https://www.theodysseyonline.com/america-1916-what-happening-100-years) 2. In the 1916s, women’s suffrage was a hot topic. Specifically, in August of 1916, the “winning plan” was revealed by NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association) president Carrie Chapman Catt. This winning plan involved a campaign to try to get it through to congress. Also in 1916, Jeannette Rankin was elected

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    The women’s suffrage movement took hold in Great Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, and until 1903, suffragists attempted to utilize constitutional methods, such as lobbying members of Parliament, to gain the right to vote. Their cause was consistently dismissed in Parliament and they were vastly unsuccessful. In response to this, Emmeline Pankhurst rose to prominence as the leader and founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union, an organization that resorted to militant tactics to enfranchise

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    humans are worthy of respect. Some of my fellow suffragists came from a Quaker background, including Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony. When I was a child, my mother would take me to suffrage meetings, and there was where I found my passion. I believe that women and men should be treated as equals, and this starts with the women’s right to vote. At age sixteen, I entered Swarthmore College, and was at the top of my class. Because of my hard work in the political and economic

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