women’s suffrage movement. It took a long time‚ but the women won the battle! Leaders like Susan B. Anthony‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Lucy Stone and many more are behind this victory. One of Susan B. Anthony’s quote is “No genuine equality‚ no real freedom‚ no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.” The 19th Amendment declared the right for women to vote‚ after a long battle know as the Women’s Suffrage movement and the Women’s Suffrage Movement had
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role in the development and success of this South American country. From the coffee rush‚ to the discovery of gold‚ women have been a crucial part of the history of Brazil. The Women’s Suffrage movement was a result of the influence of powerful educated women‚ the industrial revolution‚ and the global suffrage movement. Expectations of Women Women were expected to have personal commitments to their families‚ but none to the public world. they were expected to be homemakers‚ mothers‚ domestic servants
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home‚ and into political and social reformers for their generation and those to come in just this short span of time. Men at this time thought very lowly of women‚ believing that a women had lesser intelligence than men. “The women’s suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge‚ if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers‚ brothers‚ and husbands."- Winston ChurchillThe
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Being a woman at the beginning of the twentieth century was extremely difficult‚ so when Jeanette Rankin decided she actually wanted to contribute to her community it wasn’t such an easy journey. Rankin started her education young‚ attending a public school‚ which‚ eventually lead to her college degree in teaching. Rankin never loved school and thought that there was so much more to learn from experiences and her family. While Jeanette became a teacher‚ following in her mother’s footsteps‚ Rankin
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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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Before the Women’s Suffrage movement began‚ women faced hardships that would later motivate them to take a stand for women’s rights. Women were‚ at that time‚ being abused and mistreated by men and society‚ in order to gain what was necessary to survive during this time in American history. The industrial revolution had just swept the nation by surprise. The industrial revolution changed the process of production from hand tools and man labor‚ to power driven machinery. (Dublin). This change from
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History was forever changed when a restricted number of British women were granted the Representation of the People Act in 1918. The fight for suffrage as well as social‚ political and economic justice lasted for decades. Key causes for obtaining the constrained suffrage included the role of women in Victorian society‚ the suffrage movement as well as the efforts of British women during World War 1. The Representation of the People Act was not felt without political‚ social and economic consequences
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illegal to deny any U.S citizen the right to vote‚ but apparently‚ this law was only applied to male citizens. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were key figures in the suffrage movement Writing helped a lot in the suffrage. Susan B. Anthony and George Francis Train wrote a newspaper and it was about the suffrage. Writing was the key that helped women communicate with each other and sharing thoughts. Other women writers and poets‚ like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper‚ encouraged other
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Since time immemorial‚ all movements aspiring for a goal had to do something to attain it. Citizens of colonized countries had to organize themselves and fight by means of revolution to attain freedom. Slaves who aspired for freedom had to fight for their freedom. Employees who aspired for better terms and conditions had to engage in strikes and picketing before their rights were recognized. The fight for equal rights necessitated decades of struggle and massive propaganda campaign by the leaders
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There are numerous examples of women fighting for their right to vote‚ a key igniting factor to the Women’s Suffrage Movement gaining momentum began with the end of the Civil War. In the reconstruction era‚ the 14th and 15th Amendments in the governmental and male gender political spheres‚ created a frenzy in the women’s suffrage movement‚ instilling women to no longer be quiet and fight for the rights they deserved. The Fourteenth Amendment of 1868‚ stipulates in Art.1‚ Sec.2 “males”‚ becoming a
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