Women's Rights In The 1800s

In the mid-1800s, women’s social status was very low. They hardly had any political or legal rights. We cannot imagine how laborious lives they had at that time. As a result, more and more women joined into the abolitionist movement. They took part in such great struggle to fight for their promising future. During this time, many brilliant leaders sprang out, like Sojourner Truth who declared equality of the sexes; Susan B Anthony, who was like a master soul and led the women to get their rights. In addition, the unprecedented campaign had proceeded for 72 years until a profound amendment was enacted, the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed woman the suffrage legally and impact this country until now.

In 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified. It was a great success during the movement of women’s equal rights. However, someone may wonder that if many states had already given women the suffrage before the 1920, why
Then they continued to struggle to gain higher education and access to jobs. Although there was obstruction on the way to get education women did not give up their goal and dream until the first woman was granted the Ph.D. Since then, the door of senior education opened to the American women. Furthermore, during the late 1800s, many women joined women’s club reasoned from their final purpose was to ensure their rights and reform. They did a lot such as raising money for libraries, parks pursued laws to shield women, children. Meanwhile, the African American also started to take action to fight for their equality to get suffrage or other rights and break through the unfair barrier. Nevertheless, the largest goal might be to reform the society. One of the achievements was that they tried their best to end the social evils such as child labor. In fact, women actually did a lot for the society after the 19th Amendment is put into effect the whole