Women's suffrage

Women’s suffrage was a huge controversy in the 1920s. Many women wanted the right to vote and their voice to be heard. This was the time where the flappers were in action. Women were loud, bold, and daring. All they needed was equal rights; they wanted equal pay, and mainly voting rights. During this time, President Wilson was in office. Wilson won the presidential election due to his view on women’s suffrage; he was completely against it. ("President Woodrow Wilson Picketed by women Suffragists

to discuss women's rights took place in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York. It was there that Elizabeth Cady Stanton proposed equal suffrage for women. At that meeting, they drafted the Declaration of Sentiments which illustrated the oppression American women were facing. Although countless, courageous women would sustain this fight, it would be 1920, 72 years later, before Congress ratified the 19th amendment which gave women the right to vote (Timeline of Women's Suffrage). The defining

help to make laws and elect lawmakers.” This is a quote from Susan B. Anthony acknowledging the women’s suffrage movement. After the abolition of slavery in 1865, voting rights were extended to all citizens, however citizens in this case meant, men only. As a result of only men having voting rights, women started advocating the women’s suffrage movement. The women’s suffrage movement or woman suffrage was the struggle for women to vote and run for office. This movement began in 1848 and it continued

Starting in 1776 with a letter from Abigail Adams to her husband, the movement for Women’s suffrage lasted a superfluous amount of time. Mrs. Adam’s request for the President to “remember the ladies” set in motion a whole movement that would revolutionize the United States of America. A movement that set forth rights that the women of today take for granted. The women’s suffrage movement began in the mid-nineteenth century. Women began discussing the problems they faced in society and the different

Woman’s Suffrage Did you know that women haven’t always been able to vote? They also haven’t always had the same rights as men. The U.S is a democracy but women knew that a democracy meant all the people could vote but in 1848 women were not allowed to vote. The U.S. was not respecting minority rights. Some women decided to take a stand. Back in 1848 women were not allowed to vote. Some of the women thought this unfair so they decided to make a stand. They gathered women and then started a movement

paved the road for further reform, and changed the very fabric of our society.      Although they were fighting for a worthy cause, many did not agree with these women’s radical views. These conservative thinkers caused a great road-block on the way to enfranchisement. Most of them were men, who were set in their thoughts about women’s roles, who couldn’t understand why a woman would deserve to vote, let alone want to vote. But there were also

to vote. With educational changes and social reforms, women in the nineteenth century began to seek their rights and equality with male counterparts. As these women began fighting for the same rights as men, the United States saw a rise of the women's suffrage movement of 1840 to 1920. They had made speeches, marched in parades, signed petitions, and argued over and over

significant women in the 20th century because of her work for women’s suffrage, her

Research Question: How did British women in 1918 gain the respect and recognition they deserved, and how did this lead to female suffrage? Women gain suffrage in Britain Congratulations to all the British women who are above the age of 30, women who are over 21 and own property or are married to owners. Last week, the Representation of the People Act became law, and nearly 9 million British women and all men aged 21 or above are now allowed to vote (Walsh, Ben. 78). For centuries women have been

Progressive Era held many legacies but of those there are two that were the most important, woman suffrage and government reform.     Woman suffrage is the right for women to vote.  During the late 1800’s women fought very hard to gain many rights including the right to vote. At the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton convinced the delegates that women's suffrage should be a priority. However, after the Civil War, African American men were given the right