call to action being the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 ‚ all the way to 1920 when they 19th Amendment was ratified. This is one instance of proof of where peaceful protest benefited a party in the long run. Another instance of where peaceful protest positively affected the society is the States’ Rights movement. The purpose for this movement was to challenge the authority of the central government. States should have their own rights when it comes to issues like same-sex marriage and environmental
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that men use to do. Additionally‚ some went to the battle fields and helped nurse the soldiers. When the war ended‚ many saw how women can be just as good as men. All of this led to women getting granted the right to vote. In 1919‚ the 19th amendment was passed that gave women the right to vote. Women reformers have been fighting for suffrage‚ or the right to vote for a while. They have been fighting for so long because many people objected women’s rights. According to Women Who Fought for
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5 Claim: While the Thirteenth Amendment is a blessing for the wealthiest people of this nation‚ it is a curse for the rest of the American population because it led to the hatred of minorities. Evidence: The Thirteenth Amendment loophole was responsible for the creation of President Nixon’s “War on Drugs”. John Ehrlichman‚ Nixon’s advisor of x once stated‚ once stated‚ “We understood we couldn’t make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States‚ but we could criminalize their
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was‚ people still disrespect them in many ways. Racism and discrimination still exists to this day “In my opinion‚ had I been African-American‚ they would not have fired me‚"(Shira Hedgepeth‚ former director of academic technology at Winston-Salem State University)‚ According to Shira Hedgepeth she worked at an all black college for three years (August 2008 to July 2011) she got fired one day due to the University “Going in a different Direction” (according to an EEOC letter to the university dated
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women deserved the vote earlier than August 18th‚ 1920 for three reasons: they had worked and fought for it for a long time; other countries had already given women the right to vote; and women should have equal rights per the Bible and American Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Powerful suffragettes like Alice Paul‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ and Susan B. Anthony had been working hard for the vote for a long time before they received it. Intriguingly‚ eleven countries had already given women
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and Cultural Rebelion? 1. How did the status and behavior of American woman change in the 1920s? The behavior of American woman changed due to a series of events that occurred that ultimately led to the social and cultural rebellion. The 19th amendment empowered the woman of that decade and allowed them to rebel against the traditional domestic roles that society has set for. Not only domestic roles but also sexual‚ economic and social roles were tested. Women were pushing limits that were set
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The 18th amendment of the constitution Prohibition was introduced to all American states apart from Maryland in 1920. Prohibition was the banning of alcohol; you could be arrested for sale‚ manufacture and transportation of alcohol. There were many factors that influenced the introduction of prohibition. One of the main factors was the temperance movement’s two examples of this Were the anti-saloon league and Women’s Christian temperance movement. The temperance movements were at the strongest
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accordance to their accepted roles in society‚ working opportunities‚ and rise in political power. Beginning in the 18th century‚ women advocated to be viewed as equal to men‚ and their status in society changed multiple times‚ and even returned to its state of inferiority at one point. Women who wished to be viewed as equal‚ such as Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft‚ were treated as revolutionary idealists. With the induction of the Industrial Revolution‚ new social changes brought the stirring
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in 1820‚ she grew up in a Quaker family‚ her ideals grounded in the belief that women‚ in all aspects‚ should be equal to men. In 1853‚ she joined a campaign to extend women’s property rights‚ but after the Civil War‚ she refused to support any amendments giving African-Americans the right to vote unless it also granted the vote to their women counterparts. A statue of her with fellow suffragettes Elizabeth
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The United States Constitution overcame the weakness of the Articles of Confederation and provide for the organization of the new government. In the 1780’s‚ the United States created their first formal government after the colonists won the Revolutionary War against the British. The Articles of Confederation is a unicameral legislature where all states have a single vote. The Constitutional Convention is a bicameral where the House of Representatives has votes towards population‚ and the senate has
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