Women's Rights In 1912

In 1912 is when Roosevelt decided to come out more for women’s suffrage and became a huge push behind the fight for women’s right. When he was a senior at Harvard he wrote a thesis in which he was a huge advocate for equal women rights and he didn’t think the women should have to change their last names when they become married. Both Woodrow Wilson and William Taft were opposed to federal women’s suffrage and going into 1915 they were finally able to get it on the ballot and Roosevelt help campaign for it. To back track a little the women’s suffrage movement truly began in 1848 and the first rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. For the next 50 years women from all over worked to educate the masses about the vanity of women suffrage. There were many leaders that helped this movement along by the name of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other women who considered themselves Women’s rights Pioneers.
During the 1850s the movement of women’s right gathered some ouch but lost a bit of traction when the civil war began. Right after the war was over the 14th and 15th Amendments raised a tremendous amount of questions about suffrage and citizenship. Some of the Women-Suffrage advocates listed above strongly believed that this was their chance to move the opinions of the law makers for a more understanding voice of universal suffrage. 1890 is when two different suffrage groups merged together to for the National American Women Suffrage Association. By the time this merge took place the approach of the suffragists had changed and instead of arguing that women deserve to have the same equal rights and responsibilities that men have because everyone was created equal, they wanted to fight that they needed their own vote and voice just because they were different form men