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    Jane Addams Biography

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    help people who did not have the money to provide food‚ clothing or a safe place to live. So‚ she returned to Chicago‚ Illinois and opened Hull-House on September 8‚ 1889 ("Jane Addams." DISCovering Biography). Over time‚ Jane Addams overcame women suffrage and education‚ along with helping the poor. Jane Addams believed that women should have the same rights as men‚ and thought that women should also have the right to vote. She then joined “in the movement for women’s

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    By becoming literate a person explores new ideas whether if a writer‚ artists‚ lawmaker‚ and any career. Frederick Douglass was an open-minded man and spoke of equal rights for women’s suffrage. He attended several women rights movements one in which was the First Women’s Rights Convention. During this convention‚ he signed the Declaration of Sentiments‚ which stated “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal” (Douglass‚ The Rights of Women: Electronic Edition)

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    In a document associated with chapter twenty one‚ there is a reoccurring theme of social satire. Women’s anti-suffrage is being exaggerated and ridiculed to emphasize the corruption of those against women having the right to vote. In her Monologue‚ Marie Jenney Howe mocks anti suffragists by highlighting the many ignorant remarks made by those against women’s suffrage. She establishes the fact that antisuffragists don’t want men and women to be considered as equals. Howe describes how women are believed

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    govt. more responsive to the people‚ restore economic opportunities‚ and correct injustices. 2. muckraker- One of the magazine journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life 3. suffrage- The right to vote 4. Susan B. Anthony- Co-founder of the national woman suffrage association in 1869. 5. Theodore Roosevelt- 26th president of the US. His term lasted from 1901-1909. Known for the “square deal” politics‚ that describes progressive reforms‚ of big business that victimized

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    Anthony was an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement. In 1852‚ along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ she founded the New York Women’s State Temperance Society. This was done after Anthony was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was a woman. Anthony then founded the

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    1) What was the main concern of Republican Reconstruction Congressmen in terms of politics? The main goal of Republicans at this time was to give black men the right to vote. However‚ they did not grant suffrage to black men out of sympathy; rather‚ they did so in order to gain political clout in the South. 2) What was unique about the 14th Amendment and what does this say about the “new birth of freedom” coming out of the civil war? The 14th Amendment was unique‚ because for the first time‚ the

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    Challenging the 15th Amendment caused a big division within the civil rights movement and two organizations emerged. In 1869‚ Stanton and Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) to work for the right to vote on the federal level and press for wider institutional changes. Another organization‚ the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) was founded by suffragists‚ Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe‚ who believed that once African American men were granted the right to vote that women

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    Origins of Women’s Suffrage in the U.S. During America’s early history as a nation‚ women were denied some of the key rights enjoyed by male citizens. For example‚ married women couldn’t own property and had no legal claim to any money they might earn‚ and no female had the right to vote. Women were expected to focus on housework and motherhood‚ not politics. Wyoming‚ the first state to grant voting rights to women‚ was also the first state to elect a female governor. Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977)

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    years of her life devoted to the cause of social justice and equality for all. Her major contributions were focused on women ’s rights‚ particularly the right to vote. She devoted her life to overcoming the United State ’s resistance to women ’s suffrage. Her primary achievement lay in her inspiration and influence of thousands of people promoting the right for women to vote‚ which led to the adoption of the 19th Amendment. Two such social causes that Susan felt strongly about were the temperance

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    Kate Sheppard

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    in the country and was a pioneering cyclist. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1090714/Kate-Sheppard  (born March 10?‚ 1847‚ Liverpool‚ Eng.—died July 13‚ 1934‚ Christchurch‚ N.Z.)‚ English-born activist‚ who was a leader in the woman suffrage movement in New Zealand. She was instrumental in making New Zealand the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote (1893). Raised and educated in Scotland‚ she moved to New Zealand in the late 1860s‚ and in 1871 she married Walter

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