Essay On The 19th Amendment

In the entire political history of the United States, no woman has ever been able to have the same political rights as men. The newly adapted 19th amendment to the United States Constitution which states women are now granted the right to vote. Before this amendment was adopted by the citizens of the United States, one must consider where the idea came from for giving women the right to vote. If the United States did not grant women such a request, then how did this amendment even become an issue? From all understanding, the United States when it was founded, did not include any provisions for women to be equal with men. Women began to notice all these changes in 1848, when an organization was founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with the intention of granting women the right to vote. In 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York, a conference of women led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, formed what would be the basis for the National Organization for Women. It was here that a Declaration for the Women was drafted – one based on the Declaration of Independence, which won the United States freedom from Great Britain. Women wanted the same equal rights as men had always enjoyed.
If Ranke were to analyze the 19th amendment and what it meant to women, he would start by using A Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights movement in the United States: by Eleanor Flexner. This starts off with the position of women in the US up until 1800. And then it follows through all the way to women earning the right to vote in 1920. Another document that might be important to Ranke in terms of the political side of the 19th amendment is an article written by Margaret Cole, entitled, The Woman’s Vote: What has it Achieved? Has the 19th amendment only given women the right to vote, or have we advanced more as a