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Women's Rights In The 1800s

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Suffrage means to have the right to vote in political elections. This concept is an ideal meaning for women throughout history, especially for the women population between late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Women suffrage commenced at the Seneca Falls, which later on had escalated to Unions, then led to the 15th and 19th amendment. Of course, the men of that time had belittled the women who believed that they were more than merely the traditional mothers and wives. Although, suffrage is not only just for females, but to the Black population too; both males and females. With determination and the passion burning within them, women and African Americans alike, had reached the right for suffrage. In the 1820’s the role of a women was to stay home …show more content…

Women segregation started to become more active when females, including some men, had gathered at the Seneca Falls Conventions in 1848 (History). The convention was organized by reformers named Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott. The meeting consisted of about 300 abolitionist activists’ women, and 40 were men. During this meeting, the group discussed about women equality and voting rights. Once the meeting had begun, there were various mentioning of women suffrage. They quoted, “all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator…” (History). This meant that the belief for women’s right to vote was circulating in their minds; thus, this was the beginning to the path for women suffrage. Susan B. Anthony, including other female advocates, believed that they can extend to universal suffrage. The right for suffrage was not only for women, but it was also for African Americans. Susan B. Anthony believed that suffrage can become universal; thus, that there was a chance to push lawmakers for this goal. Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and a few woman suffrage advocates wanted to push for African Americans’ right to vote and the issue of the 15th amendment. However, lawmakers refused to support this amendment, which led to the formation of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869

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However, when thought of, most people remember her contributions to the women’s rights movement. She, and other feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, began to realize that there were numerous similarities between slaves and women. Both were fighting to get away from the male-dominated culture and beliefs. In 1848, these women began a convention in Seneca Falls, regarding women’s rights(Brinkley 330). They believed that women should be able to vote, basing their argument on the clause “all men and women are created equal”.

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(“Susan B. Anthony”). Those who loathed women’s suffrage did it on religious grounds arguing that the Bible had ordained that women be subordinate to men. (“The Nineteenth Amendment”). The Nineteenth Amendment Grants Women Full Suffrage, claims “the argument was based on the moral idea that women were the victims of male tyranny that must end”. For decades, women have and continue to fight until they receive their voting rights, during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to grants women the right to vote after many protests were held outside the White House.

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“She declared that the vote was implied right under the Constitution, by virtue of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.” (Victoria C. Woodhull) After this statement Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony invited her to speak at a convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association. They believed that since the Fifteenth Amendment stated that the states couldn’t deny citizens the right to vote on the grounds of race then women should be able to vote as well because “Women, white and black, belong to races, although to different races. A race of people comprises all the people, male and female.

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In 1872, Susan B Anthony voted illegally to protest for women's rights (One Woman, One Vote). From 1848 to 1920, women in the United States had to fight for the right to vote. Women achieve suffrage using leadership, publicity, and civil disobedience. Leadership is a powerful key that helps the women’s rights movement achieve success. Susan B. Anthony was known for having a sense of rights she did not have.

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After the civil war, the main concern of Susan B. Anthony was the women’s rights, the main focus was to give them the same equality that men had in that time. Susan and Elizabeth met at the Seneca Fall Convention, this was the first woman’s rights convention held in the United States. This convention was held by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and after that convention the main focus of the movement was “The duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise”. Then, they formed another association called The National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 in which later on they started working with another group called American Woman Suffrage Association where after, these two groups worked together to get the votes for all women and also to enforce the sixteen amendment for inequality between women and men. Another group formed to get the vote for women was The American Woman Suffrage Association but this group only focused on the rights to vote and after noticing that both groups had the same goal, they decided to become together and therefore make only one group called “The National Woman Suffrage Association”.

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The central idea for “Woman’s right to Suffrage,” is men and women should be treated equal. Woman can do just as much as what men can do, woman should be treated like people and like we matter cause honestly we do. “Woman’s right to the Suffrage” Susan B. Anthony is most compelling because she uses solid legal evidence.

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Susan B. Anthony felt that “ everyone deserved to have equal rights racially, within gender, and even educational equality” (Salam). Anthony played a tremendous role in the Women's Activist Movement, which meant that she devoted her life to working on getting women the right to vote and feel equal. Anthony began her journey to get the 19th amendment ratified in 1852. Anthony organized rallies to help get her point across that everyone should be treated the same. Susan B. Anthony was a woman who set the pathway for women’s rights activist and for a big change in society and around the world even to this day.

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Women’s Suffrage is the rights that women have to vote. Many people take this right for granite but, the election in 1920 was the first time in American history that women could vote. The campaign to give these rights had been going on for quite some time. It took nearly 100 years for the 19th amendment to pass. On August 18th 1920 the amendment finally passed.

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Susan B. Anthony was a women who, at first, did not think anything of women gaining their right to vote. She was not amused by the convention of 1848 in Seneca Falls. Anthony seemed to find these demands funny because of how outrageous they were. Although, she was interested in what Elizabeth Cady Stanton had to say. Hearing what she had to say helped Anthony netter understand that this would help women gain all other rights (Severn 66).

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In 1848 Black women made their first bid for equality in meetings with black men. “At one meeting of the National Convention of Colored Freedmen in Cleveland, Ohio a black woman proposed that women delegates be allowed to speak and vote as equals, eventually, they reclassified eligible voters as “persons” instead of men and women were allowed to participate equally”. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton changed the 15th Amendment by supporting that it should voting rights to former slaves, and that it should also include women. The northern part of the country often gave more rights to black women, the southern part of the country was sadly more close minded and still saw women as incapable and not as good as men. During the Civil War white and free black women in the North established soldiers’ aid societies.

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They were going to fight for what they wanted. Susan B. Anthony was inspired to start helping women earn this right through many things. She first got the idea to help the women when she was campaigning to ban alcohol. Because she was a woman, no one from the conferences would let her speak, as women were not allowed to speak at the conferences. Susan B. Anthony realized that women would not be taken seriously in politics unless they had what the men had, which was the right to vote (“Susan”).

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It was fueled by the persistent efforts of American women who pushed for the right to vote. To demand equal rights, these women planned protests, marches, and rallies, as well as sent letters and articles to newspapers like ours. The enormous popular support for women's suffrage and the recognition that denying women the right to vote was a violation of their fundamental rights led politicians to finally acknowledge their efforts. Several outstanding women who made various contributions to the cause led the fight for women's suffrage. One of the most notable women in the movement was the abolitionist and feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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