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    The Women’s suffrage movement in Britain came to the forefront in 1867 with the formation of the National Society for Women’s Suffrage and the movement grew going into the early 20th century by the works of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), also known as the Suffragists, along with the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), more widely known as the Suffragettes. Due to the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832, which specified that women could not vote in parliamentary

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    were superior to women. Women were not considered equal to men as they were required to stay home and care for their children. Women should had as much right to vote as men, but yet they do not. The 19th amendment gives women the right to vote which helped suffragists get closer to equality for men. During woman suffrage, women struggle for voting rights. Through the 19th century the right to vote had been given to more and more men-now is the time to include women. Women suffragists argue

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    The Women 's Suffrage Era

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    The Women’s Suffrage Era “The only Question left to be settled now is: Are Women Persons?” Susan Brownell Anthony inquired in a speech she divulged during the 1800s after she was arrested and fined for voting the year before (women 's rights to the suffrage pg. 2). During the 1900s, and many years before that, women became vile to the fact of feeling suppressed. Two particular women became repulsive to the fact that women voting was a taboo subject. Because of the impact, these women had on the society

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    exercise our rights as humans that were fought for. Until 1920, women were not allowed to vote. They were seen as humans that belonged at home to do housework and cook meals for their families. They had no say in what went on around them and had to endure the discrimination that women weren’t capable of anything. It had always been a fight for women to be seen as equal and still is today. When exactly did the movement for women’s suffrage begin and become national? It dates as far back as 1848 when

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    Late 19th century leader of the women’s suffrage movement, Lucy Burns was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 28, 1879 to a family that believed in gender equality. Her father Edward Burns believed that women should have an education and that they should work to improve the society. As the fourth child of the eight, Lucy Burns grew up as a pro women’s suffragist who later co-founded the Congressional Union with Alice Paul. (American) Burns graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York in

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    The women’s suffrage movement is one that is looked back upon fondly by many as one of just motive and right method. Sure the right to vote is one that should always have been afforded to women, but might the pro-movement arguments needed a bit of propaganda to gain the support of the public at large? An analysis of Mabel Vernon’s pro-suffrage speech “The Picketing Campaign Nears Victory” shows that the movement, regardless of it’s obvious righteousness to the modern American, needed the assistance

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    Life for women before August 18th,1920, was unequal to men (Adams, page 11). They did not have the right to vote nor were they able take action in anything. They also did not have a say in anything surrounding them. Government decisions were only taken by men. As years went by, women felt the need that they had to have a say in stuff. Today nearly fifty percent of the population in the United states are Women according to census. Considering that the average woman takes part of governmental elections

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    The woman suffrage movement, which succeeded in 1920 with the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment, coincided with major national reform movements seeking to improve public education, create public health programs, regulate business and industrial practices, and establish standards agencies to ensure pure food and public water supplies. In 1870, the first attempt that Virginia women, as a campaign, fought for the right to vote in New Jersey when native Anna Whitehead Bodeker invited several men and

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    the true essence of both the Women’s Suffrage Movement and the Abolitionist Movement. Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were Abolitionists and a majority of suffragettes were as well as well as involvement with the temperance movement. (Ibid) The question was raised, should women keep advocating for women’s rights or do they need to support the war? This resulted in the pause between 1861-1865 when there was not a women’s convention for the first time. Women were deeply involved with the Union cause

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    Suffrage Movement in Britain The Women’s suffrage movement in Britain came to the forefront in 1867 with the formation of the National Society for Women’s Suffrage. The movement grew into the early 20th century by the works of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), known as the Suffragists, along with the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), known as the Suffragettes. The violence of the WSPU is often the only aspect of the cause remembered, however, for every suffragette

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