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    professions like law. But soon, a campaign for women's suffrage was born because of suffragists. A suffragist is a person who supports the rights of women. Most suffragists were middle-classed women who were devoted to social reform. They tried to persuade the government to franchise women's rights. Part of the suffragists were members of the Women's Christian

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    The Development of a Campaign for Women's Suffrage The movement for women's suffrage became more powerful after 1870. There were a number of different reasons for this. In this essay I will be looking at these different reasons and I also will be writing about how things developed in time. I will start by looking at the situation in 1870. In 1870 the situation for women was bad and women were unfairly treated compared to men. There was inequality at work, inequality

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    Women’s suffrage, or the crusade to achieve the equal right for women to vote and run for political office, was a difficult fight that took activists in the United States almost 100 years to win. On August 26, 1920 the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, declaring all women be empowered with the same rights and responsibilities of citizenship as men, and on Election Day, 1920 millions of women exercised their right to vote for the very first time. The women’s

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    The Women’s Suffrage Movement was an important and significant time in history. It was the struggle that women went through to gain equality, their rights, and respect. Many died in the process but were still know as strong fighters. There were the first wave and the second wave of women that wanted suffrage. Many events happened to support women’s suffrage, like the Parade. Many people like Alice Paul went on many hunger strikes that caused them to get force-fed. The suffragists had to deal with

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    The Civil Rights Movement and Women’s Suffrage Movement are historically influential events that are still perpetuating different convictions in today’s society. The Civil Rights Movement established a foundation of equality and civil liberties for African Americans while the Women’s Suffrage Movement granted women the right to vote and contributed a sense of equality among genders. Both movements were in need of empathy and aid in order to bring about equality and change, in which were difficult

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    Susan B. Anthony willingly fought for countless social issues based on her beliefs. In her lifetime she became indispensable in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, but made progress in every social issue during her time. She was raised to fight for her beliefs, her parents and siblings were great explains for her. She saw people willingly putting their lives at risk for others to be heard. To some her actions may have seem heroic, but to her it was just her natural reaction to injustice social issues

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    The Women's Suffrage movement began in 1848, but it would not be until November 13, 1913 that its most powerful speech, “Freedom or Death” by Emmeline Pankhurst, would be spoken, in Hartford, Connecticut. Pankhurst’s speech is powerful because it evokes strong amounts of pity at what suffragists were going through, while giving evidence that this pain can easily be changed. “Freedom or Death” uses ethos to present Pankhurst as a trustworthy, credible speaker. The text states, “I am here as a soldier

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    woman. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Emmeline Pankhurst were important in the expansion of female privileges during the Women's Rights Movement in the United States and Great Britain. They worked to give all females greater opportunities and equal treatment. Throughout history, women’s rights and roles have evolved in education, working standards, and suffrage. Higher education was the necessary foundation women needed in order to be recognized as valuable members of society. However

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    women divorced from man, she cannot has the custody of their children. Women were not allowed to enter professions she cannot be doctor o lawyer; women cannot go to college or university, and more. According to Nancy Neuman “The struggle for women suffrage is traditionally believed to have started in 1848, when the

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    Angels” is a movie that is based on the history of women’s suffrage leading up to the 19th Amendment, allowing women to vote. Two of the main characters portrayed were Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, two women’s suffrage supports. The movie showed the struggle women went through to earn the right to vote. Some of this includes picketing, abuse, imprisonment, and hunger strikes. But that wasn’t all. These women separated from the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) after the leaders, Carrie

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