Keesha Tappin-Ezell
His 204: American History Since 1865
Erica Veljic
June 3, 2013
Women have come a long way over the history of this earth. They have come through suffrage, voilence, and discrimination. The history of women has been a continual battle. Men has always been superior and had better rights and career opportunities. To be a wife and a mother was considered a woman’s most important jobs. As years have preceded women have won the right to vote and improved their educational and job opportunities. Cover the years as women began to advance in the politics, rights, career, business ownership and a variety of different things there was still a group of women who didn’t advance until after that Black …show more content…
They also worked to produce income by means of making clothes, transformed wild game into meals, baked, and cleaned. The texts state “In 1888, Susan Laflesche reflected on her experience on the western frontier and said that a woman had to know how to do everything that a man does besides her own work, for she has to be ready for any emergency that may occur when men are not around". (Bowles, 2011) By the 1900’s 20 percent of all manufacturing workers were women and children for wages as low as $6 to $8 per week. This was not even enough for survival. To add additional income to the family they often did piecework labor in the home or tended to boarders. Jane Addams. Born in 1860 grew up in a wealthy family and had the privilege to receive a higher education. Jane inherited enough money to travel to Europe where she visited a home for wayward boys. Addams came home from her trip inspired an founded the U.S. Settlement House Movement with Hull House in Chicago. This home was for women needed social uplift for their …show more content…
Anthony in 1851. Anthony was over all the business of the women 's rights movement.Stanton was the writer. Anthony and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association traveling all over promoting woman 's rights. TheArticle wrote “Mrs. Stanton was a master of words and could write and speak to perfection of the things Susan B. Anthony saw and felt but could not herself express."(Billington, 2000) These ladies made an awesome team. Stanton and Anthony became the foremothers of women 's equality. These women started the movement of women and worked well as a team to get the job done.
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David Park, P. (2007, July 19-20). The Women 's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Retrieved November 22, 2011 from americandaily.org: http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/womens-rights-movement.htm
The 1848 Seneca Falls Woman 's Rights Convention marked the beginning of the women 's rights movement in the United States. (Park, 2007) This Convention entered its work with anticipatation of no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule but will use every instrument within their power to affect the object. This committee employed agents to circulate tracts and petition the State and national Legislatures. The women 's right movement grew into a network committed to changing