The Women Essay, Research Paper

The women’s suffrage party fought for years on the right to vote. They weren’t going to stop until they got their right. For instance, Alice Paul organized a parade through Washington D.C. on inauguration day, which supported women’s suffrage and also picketed the White House for 18 months. Paul was put in jail for that and started a hunger strike.

Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Shanton supported the women’s suffrage for fifty years later. Neither of them lived to see the 19th amendment ratified on August 26, 1920. The amendment was ratified under Wodrow Wilson as the President of the United States. Now with the 19th amendment, women have the right to own property, be employed, get an education, get a divorce, and get custody of children. They got all this with the right to vote.

On August 26, 1995, It was the 75th anniversary of the 19th amendment. The women of the past showed the government that women weren’t just meant for taking care of their husbands and children. In my opinion, what the women did in the past made the world a better place today for the women of the United States.

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These are some of the important dates that happened during this period. Carrie Chapman Catt was the President of the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) for many years.

In 1903, Mary Dreier, Rheta Childe, Leonora O’Reily formed the women’s trade union league.

In 1913, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns organized the Congressional Union. It was formally known as the NWP- National Women’s Party in 1916.

In 1914 the NFWC (National Federate Women’s Club) had more than two million white and colored women involved.

In 1916, Jeannette Rakin of Montana became the first woman to be taken into the United States House Of Representatives.

There were seventy-five women who had major roles in women’s suffrage. They were ver important and did a lot of hard work for the women’s suffrage. Some of them were:

Susan Brownell Anthony arrested for trying to vote

Elizabeth Cady Shanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments

Alice Stone Blackwell was the recording secretary

Harriot Stanton Blatch founder of the Women’s Political Union

Amelia Bloomer publisher defending women and how they dressed in New York.

Lucy Burns helped organized the Congressional Union

Carrie Lane Chapman Catt became president in 1915

Lucretia Coffin Mott started the first women’s rights convention with Stanton and her sister Martha Wright in New York

Anna Howard Shaw was President from 1904 to 1915

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a book about women independence.

Alice Paul picketed the White House for women’s suffrage 240

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

By definition, women’s suffrage is the right for women to vote. Women’s suffrage started back as far as the 1600’s. I am going to talk about the 1800’s. Women’s suffrage upset many women in the United States. Women were known to be in the home at all times. They were there to give care for the their husbands and children. Politicians feared women coming in the political race because they thought that women might vote them out of office.

In the early 19th century, women were considered second class citizens. Often after marriage they weren’t allowed to own property. It was also improper for women to speak in public alone. They were told to refrain from getting an education.

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton set women’s suffrage in 1848 at the Women’s Right Convention in Seneca Falls, New York Falls

Elizabeth Cady Stanton decided to make her own declaration called The Declaration of Sentiments by using the Declaration of Independence as her guidelines. RESOULTION 9 was the women had the right to vote.

Susan B. Anthony was arrested for attempting to vote for Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential elections.

It wasn’t just in the United States that women’s suffrage was going on. It was going on all over the world. It was going on in Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Scandinavia, and Italy. In Canada, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan got the right to vote in 1916. Quebec didn’t get the right to vote until 1940. In Mexico, women got the right to vote in1953. In Great Britain, all women got the right to vote in 1928. In Scandinavia, in Finland, they had the right to vote in1916. Before WWI women in Norway and Denmark had the right to vote. Swedish women got the right to vote in 1919. In Italy, women didn’t get the right to vote until after WWII.

Women in New Jersey could initially vote because in the state’s constitution of 1790 gave the vote all people.

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