the United States is fighting World War One in Europe‚ while women‚ including Shaw‚ are fighting for suffrage rights at home (Auerbach). As the war rages on‚ women commit to their suffrage movements by giving speeches and marching in parades. On June 21‚ Shaw persuasively speaks to the people of New York at an equal suffrage campaign as they prepare to vote on a law concerning women’s suffrage rights. Her purpose is to give evidence to her listeners and persuade them to support the right to vote
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because of persistence. Women’s suffragists of the early 1900’s understood the need to be resolute for the sake of their deprived right to vote. When World War I began in 1914‚ many suffrage organizations drifted their attention to supporting the war exertion‚ yet some suffragists remained to carry on the fight for suffrage. The ongoing fighters’ rises and downfalls during the WWI were displayed through the violence at their protests and their later imprisonment. As a woman suffragist‚ one had to accept
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The Civil War was one of the most difficult and trying times during American history. The war ended with the the Union and Confederate states torn apart over one major issue: slavery. With the end of the Civil War came the end of slavery in the United States. Although the former black slaves were now free‚ they had no land and very few rights‚ and most did not even have family. Though out reconstruction‚ blacks were able to gain rights‚ but were continuously repressed by the white Southerners. The
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The years 1865 to 1877 mark a period of reconstruction in which the country’s main focus was to heal the nation and bring the Confederate states back into the Union. Reconstruction took place in two distinct phases: presidential reconstruction‚ which was extremely lenient‚ and Congressional reconstruction‚ which was less forgiving‚ but more transformative. Presidential reconstruction had very limited success because President Andrew Johnson was swayed by Southern praise and became something of an
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DBQ – Andrew Jackson Jacksonian Democrats believed that they were protecting individual liberty‚ political democracy‚ the equality of economic opportunity‚ and upholding the rights of the Constitution of the United States. In my opinion‚ the Jacksonians were‚ to some extent‚ guardians of the United States. However‚ the Jacksonians did have their flaws. When it came to protecting individual liberties‚ Jacksonians favored the white male population‚ but totally ignored others. They wanted to
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Jacksonians proved to be both guardians and violators of the Constitution‚ political democracy‚ individual liberty‚ and economic opportunity. Throughout the Jacksonian era the Jacksonians proved to be violators of the United States Constitution and not the guardians they believed themselves to be. Both the Jacksonians and President Jackson went against the Supreme Courts regarding cases that were said to be constitutional. An instance in which the Jacksonian Democrats violated the Constitution
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reasons for this happening range from political manipulation to social typecasting. Not only are these reasons imperative‚ but understanding how enslaved and freed African Americans responded to what was happening around them is also important. The expanding need and growth of slavery depended on a number of factors. With the growing numbers of large tobacco‚ indigo‚ and cotton plantations‚ particularly in the South‚ it was apparent that plantation owners needed a helping hand. Because of their strong
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2010 Westward Expansion DBQ Manifest Destiny was the belief that the United States of America had the destiny of expanding across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This terms meaning has changed and been misused over the years. It was used as a justification for the Mexican War‚ and eventually was led to believe that it was to expand slavery. The main purpose of Manifest Destiny was not to expand the institution of slavery but of expanding economy‚ expanding territories‚ and mostly
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in the suffrage movement contributed to achieve women’s rights today‚ but some became leaders‚ being the driving force behind the revolution. One of the most important leaders in the women’s rights movements was Susan B. Anthony. As a child‚ her family was very active in reform movements‚ working for prohibition of alcohol and the anti-slavery movement. Growing older‚ she realized that she could help make a difference in how women were treated‚ and founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association
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and provides a foundation for the next wave to build from. The first wave focused primarily on gaining women ’s suffrage (the right to vote). Susan B. Anthony was one of many prominent leaders from the United States at this time. She faced charges for casting a vote prior to it being legal to do so. She later became the president of the National American Women ’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The end of the first wave is often linked with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United
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