The Role Of Women's Suffrage In America
The increase in positive growth of economics helped to improve the lives of many groups in America including "working class, immigrants, children, and women" (Carnes and Garraty). Immigration was booming because of several reasons but mostly because of the amount of jobs available in the US within factories, which encouraged immigration, even if it for some time lowered the standard of living. The lives of children were improved by laws put in place to restrict child labor while improving education of children by providing more educational facilities and encouraging children to go to school rather than working in factories or on farms. The living conditions were improved for women with the women's suffrage organizations which advocated for
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Many organizations that advocated for women’s rights, mainly to vote but also for other issues that were important to many women at the time, were started such as the AWSA, NWSA, and eventually the NAWSA. The AWSA, or American Women’s Suffrage Association focused only on advocating for the right of women to vote but the NWSA, or the National Women’s Suffrage Association, focused on larger issues (Carnes and Garraty, 554). In order for men and women to be viewed more as equals, the Victorian ideals regarding women about topics such as sex, marriage, and divorce needed to be abolished and the NWSA tried to help for that to come about. Eventually, both groups, the AWSA and NWSA, formed to create the NAWSA, or the National American Women’s Suffrage Association, and focused on fighting for women’s suffrage one state at a time (Carnes and Garraty, 554). The NAWSA eventually switched to campaigning for the right of women to vote in each separate state and moved to the national level (Carnes and Garraty, 554). With support from both sexes, eventually the NAWSA helped to bring about the right of women to vote but even before the right of suffrage for women had been gained, these organizations helped change the perception of the place in women in society which allowed for women to have the option to get a higher education at some colleges and to work jobs rather than being a housewife and watching the
Many organizations that advocated for women’s rights, mainly to vote but also for other issues that were important to many women at the time, were started such as the AWSA, NWSA, and eventually the NAWSA. The AWSA, or American Women’s Suffrage Association focused only on advocating for the right of women to vote but the NWSA, or the National Women’s Suffrage Association, focused on larger issues (Carnes and Garraty, 554). In order for men and women to be viewed more as equals, the Victorian ideals regarding women about topics such as sex, marriage, and divorce needed to be abolished and the NWSA tried to help for that to come about. Eventually, both groups, the AWSA and NWSA, formed to create the NAWSA, or the National American Women’s Suffrage Association, and focused on fighting for women’s suffrage one state at a time (Carnes and Garraty, 554). The NAWSA eventually switched to campaigning for the right of women to vote in each separate state and moved to the national level (Carnes and Garraty, 554). With support from both sexes, eventually the NAWSA helped to bring about the right of women to vote but even before the right of suffrage for women had been gained, these organizations helped change the perception of the place in women in society which allowed for women to have the option to get a higher education at some colleges and to work jobs rather than being a housewife and watching the