The document summarizes the history of the women's suffrage movement in the United States from 1848 to 1920. It discusses key events like the Seneca Falls Convention which first demanded women's right to vote. It took decades of activism by reformers to ratify the 19th amendment in 1920 granting women the right to vote. The movement was divided at times, such as over the 15th amendment that granted voting rights to black men but not women. [/SUMMARY]
The Suffragettes: Past and Present (2016)laurence raw
A presentation given at Hacettepe University, Department of English Language and Literature, Ankara on 8 March 2016. It looks at the origins of the Suffragette movement, and its potential "threat" to societal stability in the Edwardian era, as well as its role in helping bring about universal suffrage. The presentation ends with a short critique of the recent film SUFFRAGETTE (2015) in light of the historical evidence.
The Suffragettes: Past and Present (2016)laurence raw
A presentation given at Hacettepe University, Department of English Language and Literature, Ankara on 8 March 2016. It looks at the origins of the Suffragette movement, and its potential "threat" to societal stability in the Edwardian era, as well as its role in helping bring about universal suffrage. The presentation ends with a short critique of the recent film SUFFRAGETTE (2015) in light of the historical evidence.
Running head: FREEDOM AND WOMEN 1
FREEDOM AND WOMEN 2
Freedom and women
Reconstruction led to the reinstatement of the southern states to the association, and reformulating the position African Americans in the United States. The process had begun before the civil war came to an end. Abraham Lincoln the president of the United States, started the unification of the states in 1863. The southerners took an oath of loyalty to show that they were to be loyal to the union and could take positions and establish governments. Lincolns' liberation command made the United States bring slavery to an end. However, this command only freed slaves in the areas of liberation the others left in bondage. Freedom, gender, race, and political economic revolutionized in the reconstruction period. It led to the emergence of suffrage movements and amendment of the constitution, granting all citizens the right to vote.
In 1920, the US constitution got approved after the nineteenth constitutional amendment. It also granted the congress the power to exercise legislation where appropriate. The right to vote depicted the highest level of the women movement, which was led by the national American woman enfranchisement association. The women's, enfranchisement movement had its origin in 1848. Three hundred thousand male and female activists had gathered during the convention to discuss the issue of women and come up with new strategies on how the political and social rights of the women could be achieved. However, the movement initially wasn't really into the suffrage of women at its early stages. The first suffrage women movement began in 1869. Susan and Elizabeth Cady found the National Woman enfranchisement Association. “Lucy Stone, Julia Ward, and Henry Blackwell” were the founding fathers of the American Woman enfranchisement Association (Williamson, 2019). During the fifteenth amend these two associations became rivals. This was because, in the fifteenth amendment, men were granted the right to poll, and the National Woman enfranchisement supported it.
American woman suffrage association did not help the amendment, because suffrage for women was not included. Notably, the two movements despite having differences, they were later merged into one massive demonstration, the National American Woman enfranchisement Association in 1890. In the 1870s, the women enfranchisement activists began to endeavor to vote and filing case when they were denied the chance to vote. This brought a lot of consciousness to the movement especially after the apprehension of Susan Anthony when she tried to vote in ...
2. Women
suffrage is important because it was
a time where women wanted the right to
vote
3.
On Election Day in 1920, millions of American
women exercised their right to vote for the first
time. It took activists and reformers nearly 100
years to win that right, and the campaign was
not easy: Disagreements over strategy
threatened to cripple the movement more than
once.
on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the
Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising
all American women and declaring for the first
time that they, like men, deserve all the rights
and responsibilities of citizenship.
4.
After the SENECA FALLS CONVENTION of 1848
demanded WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE for the first time,
America became distracted by the coming Civil
War. The issue of the vote resurfaced during
Reconstruction.
The FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT to the Constitution
proposed granting the right to vote to African
American males. Many female suffragists at the
time were outraged. They simply could not believe
that those who suffered 350 years of bondage
would be enfranchised before America's women.
5. The
demand for the enfranchisement
of American women was first
seriously formulated at the Seneca
Falls Convention (1848).
On August 26, 1920, the 19th
Amendment granted the ballot to
American women.
6. a
rift developed among feminists over
the proposed 15th Amendment, which
gave the vote to black men. Susan B.
Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and
others refused to endorse the
amendment because it did not give
women the ballot.
7.
The first National Women's Rights Convention takes
place in Worcester mass, attracting more than 1,000
participants. National conventions are held yearly
(except for 1857) through 1860.
The federal woman suffrage amendment, originally
written by Susan B. Anthony and introduced
in Congress in 1878, is passed by the House of
Representatives and the Senate. It is then sent to
the states for ratification.
Aug. 26The 19th Amendment to the
Constitution, granting women the right to vote, is
signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge
Colby.
8.
The women suffrage movement started in the 19th
century. When the west of the united states was open
and divided into vast territories. The government
assigned a territorial governor to the territory.
A territory couldn't become a state until there was a
government there and a population of at least 60'000.
Well these places were empty, and back then women's
suffrage was up to the state. So while in a territorial
government state, the governor would allow women to
vote.
This drove women west to settle these regions, and of
course the men followed the women. With the influx of
migrates, these western territories could become
states. Women finally got the vote in 1920.
9. In
conclusion women suffrage was important
because they were fighting to get their
rights.