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    Throughout the history of civilized society‚ there have been a multitude of great reform movements bringing the advancement of societal standards and governmental policies to the forefront of attention. These requests‚ if ignored can lead to mass revolt among the people‚ as was shown by the French Revolution‚ the American Revolution‚ and the Protestant Reformation. All reforms begin with small requests and simple protests‚ but depending on the actions of those in authority it can either erupt into

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    in Alabama still leaves loopholes‚ it’s better than nothing‚ like Georgia has. She expresses that a “girl of six or seven years‚ just tall enough to reach the bobbins‚ may work eleven hours by day or by night.” Kelly then ties in her views as a suffragist and states that if “the mothers and the teachers in Georgia could vote‚ would the Georgia Legislature have refused… to stop the work in the mills of children under twelve years of age?” Lastly Kelley speaks about how the children are making “our

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    including her efforts to secure voting rights for women and her campaign for congress. As time went on and Rankin continued to advocate for women’s rights‚ Rankin became quite a prominent figure in the movement for suffrage. She began making waves as a suffragist when she joined National American Women’s Suffrage Association. With her great influence over the suffrage campaign Jeanette commenced making speeches around Washington. Through Jeanette’s efforts and many others‚ the association helped women in

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    Goldstein. Vida played a big role in legalising women’s vote. Thanks to Vida‚ Australian women got the vote two decades before Britain. She was also the first woman in the British Empire to run for parliament. Growing up‚ Vida’s father was an anti-suffragist. Her mother‚ however‚ was not‚ so she made sure that Vida and her three sisters were all well educated. They were educated by a governess up until the age of 15. After that‚ Vida attended Presbyterian Ladies’ College in Melbourne. She was first

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    Phyllis Cole states that Margaret Fuller has not received nearly as much attention from early and modern feminist scholars for her integral role in the feminist movement’s history due her intellectually complex writing style. b) Cole sees herself as including Fuller in dialogue with her feminist precursors Mary Wollstonecraft and Sarah Grimke to show how Fuller drew on their writings to help make her own arguments in “The Great Lawsuit”‚ but to also go beyond both women by including Fuller’s application

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    maintaining the racial hierarchy (as anti-suffragists in the South) or worried about preserving gender roles‚ these woman banded together against their fellow women in order to protect their way of life. All anti-suffrage protestors argued against the passage of the bill with the argument that the reality afterwords was unclear. “Antisuffrage arguments had a certain plausibility‚ however‚ because no one could be sure of the impact of the measure if it passed‚ suffragists traditionally claimed that the vote

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    the Reconstruction Period African American women writers such as Anna Julia Cooper and Victoria Earle Matthews‚ to name a few fought to show that Christian Affiliation played a big part in obtaining Social equality for Blacks. Both women being Suffragist believed strongly in equality for African American women and justice for all. Cooper incorporated Christianity and education in her writings and speeches to encourage Blacks’‚ especially African American women that education is the key to obtaining

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    was affected by women’s support and opposing of the war. Organizations such as the Woman’s Peace Party created by Carrie Chapman Catt and The National Suffrage Association supported the war by instilling a sense of patriotism in not only women suffragists‚ but the nation into advancing the war effort. Contrastively‚ women such as Jane Adams and Charlotte Perkins Gilman had refused to support the war because they argued that wives and mothers had special morals for pacifism where the country should

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    APUSH Women AP essay q-3 1840-1890’s women’s activists in the intellectual‚ social‚ economic‚ and political spheres effectively challenged traditional attitudes about women’s place in society” Asses the validity of this statement. During the Colonial era and the first decades of the United States‚ there have always been women who strove to secure equal rights for themselves and others. Some assumed the business interests of a husband after his death. A few women challenged male domination

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