From the Industrial Revolution in the 1890s to the beginning of the First World War in the 1920s, there have been many economic and social changes throughout the United States. Within all of these changes there have been successes, such as becoming the number one economic and social global force, and limitations, such as the exploitation and exclusion of many different peoples. Both the limits and successes would not have occurred without one another; there would have been no successes without limits, and vice versa. The effectiveness of reformers and the federal government in bringing about change in the United States was generally successful, most reformers were eventually heard by the government, but some types of people refused to change …show more content…
The women who campaigned for suffrage were split into two groups, the suffragists and the suffragettes. Suffragists were non-violent and sought to achieve the right to vote through protests, boycotts, and pamphlets, while the suffragettes were radical and were willing to become violent for their right to vote. Suffragists campaigned tirelessly for the vote during the first two decades of the twentieth century, which was seen when they took to the streets in public displays such as this 1915 pre-election parade in New York City (Locke and Wright 2021,116). Many women wanted the right to vote so they could be represented and heard throughout their country. Women such as Susan B. Anthony, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton gained followers by using their voices and preaching to some male politicians for them to be their voices in congress. In an editorial by Alice Stone Blackwell, she believed that the reasons why women should vote were the same as the reasons why men should vote, it is fair and right that the people who must obey the laws should have a voice in choosing the lawmakers, and that those who must pay the taxes should have a voice as to the amount of the tax, and the way in which the money should be spent (Blackwell 1917,