American Woman Brenda R. Dople HIS 204: American History Since 1865 Timothy Smith October 7‚ 2012 As a woman myself‚ it is hard to imagine a time when I would not have been allowed to attend college‚ let alone be writing this paper. As children most of us heard stories from our grandparent’s about what life was like they were young. I can remember laughing at the thought of “walking up hill both ways” to get to school. With the liberties American Women have today‚ it is easy to take for granted
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COPIED DIRECTLY FROM http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/WIC/Historical-Essays/No-Lady/Womens-Rights/ The beginning of the fight for women’s suffrage in the United States‚ which predates Jeannette Rankin’s entry into Congress by nearly 70 years‚ grew out of a larger women’s rights movement. That reform effort evolved during the 19th century‚ initially emphasizing a broad spectrum of goals before focusing solely on securing the franchise for women. Women’s suffrage leaders‚ moreover
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The women’s suffrage brought a changed perception of the roles women held in society. During the nineteenth century‚ women had no position other than a home maker‚ and stay at home wife. Women could not vote‚ and had no role in national politics. The women’s suffrage began as a movement fighting for the right for women to vote and hold positions in office‚ but it soon grew into much more. Women began fighting for equality in the workplace‚ and in society as a whole. Women began to fight for acceptance
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Another transformation that happened in the Progressive Era was the status of women. In the late 19th century‚ middle-class women created settlement houses in poor and urban neighborhoods‚ so they could carry out reform work in the surrounding neighborhoods. As these houses grew and evolved‚ settlement house workers started lobbying local‚ state‚ and national governments to pass reform legislation like minimum wage‚ workplace safety standards‚ and sanitation regulations. These settlement houses gave
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Women fought a lot to gain full equality during the Progressive era. The perfection of the American Revolution increased women’s suppositions‚ encourage some of the first straight forward requirements for impartiality and observed the formation of female institutions to enhance women’s education. According to http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=11(by the early 19th century‚ American women had the highest female literacy rate in the world). The American government’s expanded suffrage to
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The nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920‚ giving all women the right to vote. This amendment was the result of over two generations of women’s protests and hard work. The nineteenth Amendment was officially ratified on August 18‚ 1920‚ but it was introduced to Congress 42 years earlier‚ in 1878. This amendment guaranteed that all women who were citizens of the United States could not be denied or restricted from voting based on their gender. Many thought that this right was implied in the fourteenth
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John Jacomo Progressive era DBQ The late 1800’s and early 1900’s was called the Progressive Era. Society became more diverse while industry flourished. But problems like monopolies‚ discrimination‚ and corruption arose so the idea of change raced through people’s heads. A group of people called progressives decided to take action. This denouement benefits for not only the federal government but America itself. Change during the progressive era resulted in benefits for the American people
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neglected rights that were clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence saying‚ "that all men are created equal..." The very act of taking away rights from men of color and women in general goes against that declaration. Women rights activist Carrie Chapman Catt played a key role in the passing of the 19th amendment that allowed women the right to vote. Now today with the passing of the 19th amendment and the civil rights movement the American dream has changed
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the 19th amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Paul also organized a parade on President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration day‚ while encountering opposition from the old guard of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association‚ Carrie Chapman Catt. In January 1917‚ the NWP staged the first political protest to picket the White House. Paul was arrested for “interfering with traffic” and placed in jail at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia; there she went on a hunger strike‚ and had to
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through the creation of feminist suffrage organizations‚ evolutions in the labor force‚ and the surge of immigrants. Society was affected by women’s support and opposing of the war. Organizations such as the Woman’s Peace Party created by Carrie Chapman Catt and The National Suffrage Association supported the war by instilling a sense of patriotism in not only women suffragists‚ but the nation into advancing the war effort. Contrastively‚ women such as Jane Adams and Charlotte Perkins Gilman had
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