By : Amandaa Parris 11p
Throughout the 18OOs the Unites States have been impacted on by many movements. This essay will discuss how the women’s suffrage movement and the labor, what events led to these movements and how they achieve their goals.
After the Civil War, voting rights was ensured to all citizens of the United States, regardless of their race or color, but the rights for women’s voting was never considered or guaranteed. The women suffrage movement was the right for women to vote and to run for office. Voting rights were limited, and was eventually gained by women in Sweden, Britain, Finland and some western states in the U.S. Women became more involved in morals and started demanding greater political rights in order to promote their ideas. Women used political platforms to voice their demands for the right to vote. Many women supported the actions taken to reach their goals. The women’s suffrage movement resulted in women having the right to vote and becoming equals in the American society. The women’s suffrage movements ended in 192O with a famous passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution stating, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Although many Americans were against women’s suffrage, the movement brought progress towards equality, related social and political reform, and led to many events that allowed women to bring about social