The woman’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight with blood‚ sweat and tears from all the hard work that was put into the fight to win the right for women to vote in the United-States. It took the women almost 100 years to win the right to vote‚ on August 26‚ 1910 the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was passed‚ allowing millions of women to vote on election day the same as men. Over the years the rights for women have slowly been growing‚ with women become more and more
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defy the norms of society. Women decided to be involved because of the way man acted when they drank‚ which was unsafe for families and the women themselves. Discontent caused women to become involved in prohibition‚ the labor force‚ and in the Suffragette Movement because of the actions of men‚ the unfairness in the labor force‚ and anger with the inability to vote. With prohibition brought angry men. Many refused to give up drinking‚ which resulted in illegal activity to obtain the liquor. Men
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As the 19 century ended and the 20th began‚ the American wave of women pushing for access to the ballot box gathered momentum. As astonishing as it was many women were against the right to vote. These women were referred to in many ways: “anti-suffragettes‚” “anti-suffragists‚” “remonstrates‚” “governmentalists‚” “antis‚” and “naysayers.” Anti-suffragists leaders were not average American women but were women of the higher‚ privileged‚ class. These women were already doing well in society and had
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The conflict that I must resolve is a disagreement between a wealthy suffragette and her husband. The suffragette is a woman who has been putting forth massive support‚ both financially and time wise‚ into the suffragette movement. She is very passionate about movement and wants to help any way she can. The husband is a lawyer with hopes of serving on the state legislature. He understands the suffrage movement as a serious detriment to his family and is irate that his wife would join such a cause
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Describe the ways in which the methods of the suffragists and suffragettes were different. Women started campaigning to win the vote in the 1850’s. Small local groups had meetings nationwide to present their arguement for allowing women to vote. In 1877 - 78 there were 1‚300 meetings - this represents how serious the women were.The campaigners were mainly middle class‚ as‚ upper class ladies most propably found "campaigning" and "argueing" unlady like and inappropriate. However this does not
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When we think of the Suffragette Movement‚ this is normally the names that comes to mind. In fact‚ Anthony did not join the movement until 1852‚ four years after the first convention. She joined through her acquaintance with Cady after the two were introduced by Amelia Bloomer. The first convention she attended was the Syracuse Convention in 1852. In 1866‚ Anthony and Cady worked together and founded the American Equal Rights Association. Their hard efforts started to pay off in 1869‚ when Wyoming
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fighting to have rights of their own‚ whether it be by protesting‚ holding conventions‚ or even rallying in the streets. The women of America were persistent in their fight and would call themselves‚ suffragettes‚ playing on the word suffrage‚ meaning the right to vote. The United States suffragette movement improved women’s roles in society by allowing more women to attend college‚ get better jobs‚ and overall gave women more rights. Once women earned
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This view may be formed from the evidence that Emily Davison was a violent suffragette; proven by the white green and purple flag sewn into her jacket and her criminal record. Emily had begun by throwing stones but it became worse and she had set two post boxes alight. Her activities were worsening making it not unusual for her to
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When speaking of women’s rights‚ it is very important to mention the suffragette movement. A suffragette is a woman seeking the right to vote through organized protests. The suffragettes were mostly middle and upper class women‚ who were frustrated by their social and economic standings. Their deep struggle to gain more rights and independence in society launched them into a
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Women like her contributed greatly to the women’s rights movement‚ and many of her actions could be traced to the creation of the Nineteenth Amendment‚ the amendment that finally gave women the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a successful suffragette despite not living to see the creation the Nineteenth Amendment. She founded the National Women’s Loyal League‚ helped organized the first women’s rights
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