Kayla Benware Professor Donnelly History 202 Research Paper Fall 2011 Women’s Suffrage Movement Impact on the United States Woman suffrage in the United States was achieved gradually through the 19th and early 20th Century. The women’s suffrage movement concluded in 1920 with a famous passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution which stated: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” In the aftermath of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, which demanded the rights for women’s suffrage, most Americans rejected the movement because people did not want the United States system to change when it was already clearly working, …show more content…
Other influential women in women suffrage history, such as Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, formed the American Woman Suffrage Association in late 1869. This group’s goal was to continue Anthony’s and Stanton’s goal and gain voting rights for women through amendments to individual state constitutions. The territory of Wyoming was later the first to pass the women’s suffrage law; and women began to serve on juries there as early as the following year. By 1890, The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSAA). This became the movement’s mainstream organization and NAWSA started state-by-state campaigns in order to obtain voting rights for women. Colorado was the first state to adopt an amendment granting the right to vote in 1893. Closely after, Utah, Idaho, Washington State, California, Oregon, Kansas, Arizona, Alaska, Illinois, Montana, Nevada, New York, Michigan, South Dakota, and Oklahoma all adopted the amendment by 1918. Many other events followed suit, including The National Association of Colored Women in 1896, which brought together more than 100 black women’s clubs. Some famous activist leaders in the black women’s club movement were Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Mary Church Terrell, and Anna Julia Cooper. “Although woman suffrage meant different things to different African American
“Beginning in the 1800s, women organized petitioned and pocketed to won three right to vote but it took them decades to accomplish their purpose”(archive.com). The organized movement started at Seneca Falls, NY with a meeting called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. The most influential leaders during the movements were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The Suffragists and Suffragettes were trying to prove to the public that women could be doing other things apart from looking after the children and taking care of the homes. The Seneca Falls convention was organized by a group of women who had been active in the antislavery movement. The Seneca Falls Declaration called for an increase in women’s rights in these areas, as well as in education for women and the jobs available to
There were many accomplishments from the populists, progressives, organized labors, and the women’s suffrage. The 15th amendment to the Constitution proposed compromise the right to vote to African American males. Countless female suffragists at the time were livid. They simply could not believe that those who agonized 350 years of bondage would be enfranchised before America's women. The main goal of the women’s suffrage movement is to achieve voting rights for women by income of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution. In November of 1869 this crowd focuses exclusively on gaining voting privileges for women through amendments to individual state constitutions. Also in 1903 The NATIONAL Woments Trade Union
Women’s suffrage, or the crusade to achieve the equal right for women to vote and run for political office, was a difficult fight that took activists in the United States almost 100 years to win. On August 26, 1920 the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, declaring all women be empowered with the same rights and responsibilities of citizenship as men, and on Election Day, 1920 millions of women exercised their right to vote for the very first time.
Women's gained the right to vote in 1920, only white women could vote because african americans were still restricted under jim crow laws. Leaders like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were leading women's right activists even before the 1920’s and helped pushed harder and harder for suffrage. “who had launched the suffrage campaign by “sending forth that daring declaration of rights” at the country's first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848."(). Susan B. Anthony along with her friends and partner Elizabeth Stanton started a campaign at the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York.‘The NWSA was met with defeat in the Supreme Court and in Congress in the late 19th century, but the state-by-state strategy of the AWSA did have some early successes. A few Western territories and states, primarily as an enticement to encourage settlement, passed woman suffrage ballots in the last half of the century"().They women beat the court but were planning to do a state by state strategy to win the country over ."NAWSA presented itself as patriotic, demanding democracy at home while the country was fighting for democracy abroad. By 1919, suffragists mobilized to win passage of the 19th Amendment.”(). By 1919 after fighting and demanding suffrage women won and by 1920 won the right to vote. After fighting for the equal right vote as men, white women finally achieve that and then
The women’s movement from the early 20th century had numerous goals, with the foremost being women having the right to vote. Along with suffrage, this movement sought change in many areas such as alcohol abuse, child labor laws, and political practices. While as a whole the women’s movement wanted progress on these issues, there were differences of opinion on how to get them done. One side was more temperate and less aggressive in their demands, while the other side believed in a more aggressive and direct approach to getting issues passed. These two would fight over how to get women’s suffrage passed as an amendment to the Constitution. The more peaceful of the two groups, known as NAWSA, or the National American Women’s Suffrage Association,
Black woman had more of a challenge. Black suffragist led on with their political rights. African woman started to assert their political rights in the 1890’s. They didn’t find it fair that they got more of the challenging part of the woman suffrage just because they were a different color. “How much more do black Americans, male and female, need the strong defence of a vote to help secure their right life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?” Argued Adella
The women’s suffrage movements began to emerge during the first half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, a handful of Western states already granted women’s suffrage during the nineteenth century. However, in the majority of states the enfranchisement of women followed only after the nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted full voting rights to women in 1920. Similarly, British women gained partial suffrage through the Representation of the People Act of 1918.
The goal of the suffrage movement was to gain political freedom by advocating the right to vote with the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920. In 1848, a convention known as the Seneca Falls, was held in New York by a woman named Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton was an American suffragist, born in New York, and believed that women should be granted the same rights as men. At this convention, issues regarding that women should be given the right to vote as well as be given more opportunities for education and work were being discussed. Over 300 people, mostly women but several men, had also attended. This event marked the first step towards equality for all women. After the Seneca Falls convention, the idea of granting women voting rights was
In 1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed National Woman Suffrage Association, with the focus of achieving the right for women to vote. Soon many women suffrage advocates started focusing specifically on gaining the right to vote. Advocates continued to try to get the right the vote by holding conventions, meetings, handing out pamphlets, and placing
“In 1893 to 1896, the newest states Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho amended their state constitutions to include women’s suffrage” (Lewis). This was a step in the right direction. The organization kept working hard and organized tons of campaigns to get the movement on state ballots, however, every time they were on the ballots they did not go through. As of 1906, the leaders who started the movement had all passed away. In spite of this, from 1910 to 1912 Washington State, California, Michigan, Kansas, Oregon, and Arizona had all approved of women’s suffrage (Lewis). The states passing these laws created a fear in the Southern states that this progression in the movement would impact the voting rights for African Americans. The end of this large organization was near and a new organization created by Lucy Burns and Alice Paul called the Congressional Committee had been created within NAWSA and was later called the National Woman’s Party.
Just one hundred years ago, women in the United States were not allowed to vote. The 19th amendment was not ratified until June 4, 1919. The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. Women activists had been fighting decades to have such a right. There were many factors that made the 19th amendment possible such as women’s rights organizations, advocates, conventions, and marches. The women’s right movement paved the way to accomplishing the ratification of a female’s right to vote.
Women’s suffrage in the United States began in the nineteenth century and continued into the twentieth century until the nineteenth amendment was passed in 1920 to give women the right to vote. Women’s rights activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony protested the fifteenth amendment that was passed in 1869 because the amendment unfairly did not include women. While Anthony and Stanton protested this proposed amendment other activists such as Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe fought against the women’s suffrage movement by saying that if African-Americans got their right to vote women would gain theirs soon after. The conflict that arose from the two sides butting heads gave way to the formation of two organizations, the National Women’s Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. The National Women’s Suffrage Association fought for women’s right to vote at a federal level, they also fought for married women to have the same rights as their husbands in regards to property. The American Woman Suffrage Association took a slightly different approach by attempting to get women the right to vote through much simpler means of the state legislature. The women involved in these movements finally got their day in Washington on January 12, 1915 as a women’s suffrage bill was brought before the House of Representatives but
On January 20, 1873, the NWSA or National Women Suffrage Association submitted a petition to Congress requesting the right for women to vote. This was the first major feminist movement in the United States. In July 1890, Wyoming became a U.S. state, and it was also the first state to give women the right to vote. By 1919, women had gained these rights in 16 other states.
In 1920 women’s groups worked to win the approval for the right to vote. Once the nineteenth amendment was passed women were rejoicing nationwide, feeling they made a difference and their feeling of inadequacy had diminished. Although women struggled for their rights they never gave up. In Wyoming in 1869 women won the right to vote. It was not until 1920 when all women had the right to vote in all states. The next hurdle for women was the right to serve on juries. This was a little
They were seen as inferior to men and treated as one and had no protection over their rights. Importantly, they were not able to easily get jobs, receive education, contribute to politics, and gain independence. To exhibit and expand women’s capability, Women’s Rights Movement had begun in 1848 in the U.S. In this movement, both women and few other men started by outlining the movement and calling for equal treatment and the right to vote. An organization called the National Woman Suffrage Association, formed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton during the movement, their goal was to have women’s voting rights in the Constitution. Later on, states started to pass women’s suffrage laws and adopt an amendment granting women right to vote. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment, the right to vote, was signed into the Constitution. Yet, there were still gender distinction. For example, a woman would lose their citizenship if she married a non-American, including her children. But that was until 1934. As time went by, rules of women, race, and religion discrimination were banned in U.S. and laws helping and protecting them were made in many