Summary Of Women's Suffrage Is A Turning Points In World History

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The book Women’s Suffrage is a part of the series, Turning Points in World History. In this book, there are many discussions about women’s suffrage. The book opens with a foreword, introduction and a brief history of women’s suffrage. All six chapters are broken into sub-topics discussing the things that happened during the women’s suffrage and the effect of the women’s suffrage movement. Women’s suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. American women didn’t have as many rights as men. This is how the women’s suffrage movement began. Women felt that they weren’t being treated as equal as men because they were denied rights just for being a woman. The author’s purpose of writing this book is to inform and to educate people about …show more content…

This is the time where women fought for their right to vote. In this book, women’s suffrage is explained in numerous ways. Stalcup and other authors talk about the how women’s suffrage started, what went on during the women’s suffrage movement and the effect of the women’s suffrage movement. Women couldn’t do many things such as voting, sitting on a jury, or run for political office. These things could only be done by men, which was unfair to American women. The women’s suffrage movement allowed women to express themselves about their rights as women. The founders of the Women’s Suffrage Movement were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. You would think that all women were for this movement, but that’s not true. Some women didn’t want to be involved in it all while others continued to support the movement. Even though women couldn’t speak in public, some women rebelled a spoke in public places. For example, two women who rose a lot of commotion were the Grimke sisters, Sarah and Angelina. They were daughters of a slave owner in South Carolina and they only intended to speak to small groups of women, but over time, they attracted larger crowds. Even men came out to see them speak in public forums. After meeting at a convention, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton became friends and discussed the legal and social disabilities of being a woman. The more they talked about it, the more ideas came to …show more content…

One of the major things that happened in the movement was that there were divisions in the movement. The advocates who didn’t see eye to eye at one point were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton on one hand and on the other, Lucy Stone and her husband. Some of the differences that arose were how the funds of the Equal Rights Association were going to be used; whether men should be welcomed as allies after the apostasy in the case of the reconstruction amendments; and, most important, whether the amendment themselves should be supported despite their failure to include women. Another major thing that happened during the women’s suffrage movement was that women got their attempt to vote. In the years 1868 and 1869, this was the first time in history that women voted. This was one of the greatest things that happened to women during this time. A young lady who just finished voting stated, “I feel so much stronger for having voted.” As you can see, voting meant a lot to women. It made them feel that they were able to do the same thing as men do. This was a right that they were waiting for and they finally had the chance to do what they have been fighting for, which was to