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Short Answer Questions: 1. The progressives believed that growth and progress could not continue to occur recklessly‚ as they had in late nineteenth century. The “natural laws” of the marketplace ‚ and the doctrines of laissez faire and Social Darwinism that celebrated those laws‚ were not sufficient to create the order‚ stability‚ and justice their growing society required. Direct‚ purposeful human intervention in social and economic affairs was essential to ordering and bettering society
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turning points that took place during this time were (1) Women earned the right to vote and (2) Education. Women Suffrage The early 1900s saw a successful push for the vote through a coalition of suffragists‚ temperance groups‚ reform-minded politicians‚ and women’s social-welfare organizations. Although Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton devoted 50 years to the woman’s suffrage movement‚ neither lived to see women gain the right to vote. But their work and that of many other suffragists
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of the British suffragette movement which fought for women to win the right to vote‚ she was widely criticized for her militant tactics however her work is recognized as a crucial element in obtaining women’s suffrage in Britain. She was a member of the National Society for Women’s Suffrage (NSWS) that split in 1888. Then she created the Women’s Franchise League (WFL) which fought to allow married women to vote in local elections. In 1903‚ she helped found the more militant Women’s Social and Political
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women found out that their amendment failed‚ they formed a suffrage group. Groups all over Britain were formed. A year later‚ several of these groups joined together to form the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. The NUWSS was formed by Millicent Fawcett. They called themselves the Suffragists because they were trying to mock the word suffrage which means the right to vote. The Suffragists wanted to campaign for women’s suffrage but they didn’t want any violence so they continued with the
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woman’s suffrage only group was founded in a split. The split took place in May 1869 directly following a convention of the Equal Rights Association called to discuss the issue of woman suffrage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony organized the National Woman Suffrage Association. Later that year‚ in November‚ a second organization was set up‚ calling itself the American Woman Suffrage Association. (Flexner 145) “Except for one or two abortive attempts at reconciliation‚ the two suffrage associations
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According to Corrine McConnaughy‚ professor of political science at George Washington University and author of The Woman Suffrage Movement in America: A Reassessment‚ the leaders of the anti-suffrage movement in America “were generally women of wealth‚ privilege‚ and social status and even political power” (Weeks). These women‚ who were all thriving in the current system‚ were resistant to say goodbye to their
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controversial issue and Florence Kelley was one of the many protestors that brought success to the child labor laws. She was an avid fighter and was not only against child labor laws but also woman’s suffrage. On July 22‚ 1905‚ Kelley gave and impeccable speech at the Convention of National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia about child labor laws. To successively persuade her listeners‚ Kelley used versatile amounts of strategies‚ ranging from repetition of key words‚ to ethical appeal
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March 15‚ 2015 DBQ Prompt: “Analyze the arguments women used in the 1848 – 1920 campaign to achieve the right to vote AND how were they able to combat the opposition against women’s suffrage.” Women in United State went through great challenges‚ to change the societal views and discriminations on them. The suffrage movements‚ during 1848 to 1920‚ were accentuated with their strong assertion of their natural rights as human beings‚ just like any other great builders of what is now called United States
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services and have a job. The first reform organization that women participated in was the fight for black civil rights. Between 1890 and 1913 two groups were founded to highlight women’s suffrage and to push for reforms including allowing women to vote. With the determination of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the National Women’s Party (MWP) women‚ Susan B. Anthony wrote and submitted a proposed right-to-vote amendment to the Constitution. Women achieved the right to
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