Phoebe Robbins Mrs. Zarookian Social Studies - Period 6 March 12, 2024 Voting Rights During the Progressive Era “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.” - Susan B. Anthony (National Women's History Museum). On July 4th, 1876 Anthony led a protest called the Declaration of Women’s Rights, after her speech, a member of the Congress formally submitted a proposal to let women vote. The Progressive Era was during 1870 to 1920 where activists, like Susan B. Anthony, tried to solve pressing issues. One of the many problems during the Progressive Era was women's rights. The Women’s Rights Movement started to form after the Civil War, where women started to advocate for rights they didn’t have. The first Woman's …show more content…
Even though activists and organizations fought for the right to vote and achieved it, women took many decades to achieve the right to vote because of anti-suffrage groups. Activists helped advance the Women’s Rights Movement to the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony was a women's activist that created organizations, protested around the world, and gave influential speeches at conventions. One of her most influential speeches was in 1872 after she got fined $100 for voting but refused to pay. She said, "It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.” (Digital History) In this quote she is saying that in the Constitution they wrote about we the people not we the men. Overall, she concludes that in the Constitution everyone has rights, not just men. Susan B. Anthony greatly impacted the future of women's rights at the time by creating one of the biggest women's rights organizations and protested about why women should have the vote. Even though Susan B. Anthony created the National Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA) about women's rights, their main focus …show more content…
Ida B. Wells created many groups to stop the racism in the Women’s Rights Movement. She later created many organizations to get all women the vote and progress the movement. Organizations helped progress the Women's Rights Movement to get women the right to vote. The NWSA was founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. It was one of the first organizations to form and give women a way to protest their beliefs. The NWSA created a newspaper with the motto, “Justice, no Favors—Men, their Rights and Nothing More; Women, their Rights and Nothing Less” (National Women's History Museum). This paper covers topics about women's rights to suffrage, education, and divorce. Even though the NWSA focused on many rights, their main goal was to get women to vote. Many of their leaders held protests and gave speeches. The NWSA gave women a way to communicate their beliefs and start their campaign during the Progressive Era. In addition to that, the NWSA created a national newspaper to spread the word about the Women’s Rights Movement. Later the NWSA combined into the NAWSA in 1888, which later
The Women who Dared to Vote Susan B. Anthony February 1820 - March 1906 Biography and Early Life Born in Adams, Massachusetts on February 15th, 1820 Brought up in a quaker family with long activist traditions, developed a sense of justice early in life. After teaching for 15 year, she became active in temperance. However, because she was a women she was not allowed to speak at rallies. Soon after meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton she became very active in the women’s right movement in 1852 and dedicated
Just like Clinton, Susan B. Anthony also believed in this concept and in the 1900s in the United States, she decided to dedicate her life towards civil rights. Her early life led her to fight in a vigorous battle for equality, which had many effects on her and those around her. Susan B. Anthony fought against racism and sexism because she believed in equality for everyone. In her early life, Susan B. Anthony had many influences that persuaded her to later pursue equal
Suffrage: Susan B. Anthony For centuries women could only get low paying jobs, the men had more power over women, and women were not privileged to vote during this time frame. Women suffered everywhere from gender discrimination in what jobs they could get hired for, limited rights they had, and what power they could retain after marriage. Although those were the normalcies for previous centuries, many women became angered with their mistreatment. One of those angered women being, Susan Brownell
forward to women’s right; Susan B. Anthony. Susan B. Anthony was a leader who gained justice through her speech, “On Women’s Right to Vote”. She was a prominent force of nature, and led the charge in women’s suffrage. Through her tactics and protesting, she made her name known throughout the entire world. Susan B. Anthony was one of the early leader to make a step forward in creating equality between men and women. Susan Brownell Anthony was
“To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.” (Susan B. Anthony) Susan B. Anthony was a prominent women’s rights activist and a social reformer. She dedicated her life to spread awareness of the danger and unfairness of social inequalities and slavery. She helped creating or advocating many US and International organizations. She lobbied the creation of laws to protect the rights of citizens regardless of their ethnicity
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Rights Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met in March 1851, the two women not only developed a deep friendship but also helped each other prepare to change women's rights forever. Together they formed one of the most productive working partnerships in U.S. history. As uncompromising women's rights leaders, they revolutionized the political and social condition for women in American society. Stanton was the leading voice and
Computers 6th Hour Katie Dwiggins STREAM CLASSMATES ABOUT Woohoo, no work due soon! VIEW ALL TOPICS Creative Communicator Digital Citizenship ePortfolio Friendly Letter Typing Assignment: "Historical Research and Reality Video" Katie Dwiggins Created Oct 21Oct 21 (Edited Oct 25) DONE Due Nov 2 Historical Research and Reality Video This assignment is going to have two parts for two different grades. Everyone in your assigned group will need to complete part one before continuing to complete part two. The
Abstract This essay discusses women's rights. It shows the importance of giving females their full rights just like males. This paper was written in order persuade men, particularly Arab men, that giving women their rights is fair because women and men are equal and have equal importance in life. Research also showed that some disagree when it comes to giving women their rights. However different sources such as ,online articles and debates, reveal positive conclusions made concerning women's rights
MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE: forgotten feminist Introduced by Susan B. Anthony at the International Council of Women in 1888, Matilda Josyln Gage began her speech with a brief sketch of her early entry into the suffrage movement: I have frequently been asked what first turned by thoughts towards woman's rights. I think I was born with a hatred of oppression, and, too, in my father's house, I was trained in the anti-slavery ranks, for it was one of the stations on the underground railway, and a home of
A Women’s right. The women’s rights movement is one of the most important events in history, millions of women during various decades fought hard for the rights that we all have now. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and many other brave females are examples of women who let their commodities and risked their lives for the triumph in having Women’s rights in our country. But there was a possibility that they could of loose, and women’s rights could not be achievable today. Our world could
women to vote with a restriction to only women with cash or property (“Women’s Suffrage”). In 1860, the revised Married Women’s Property was passed, allowing women to have control over their children’s will and money a... ... middle of paper ... ...aludi, Susan. Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women. New York: Crown, 1991. Print. Henry, Astrid (2004). Not My Mother's Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-Wave Feminism. Indiana University Press. p. 58. ISBN 9780253111227. Kendra
released in 2004 starring Hilary Swank (I thought I recognized her!) as Alice Paul. This film was released at the Sundance film festival and got very positive reviews. IN this paper, I want to learn more about the characters and real life people Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Carrie Chapman Catt. Alice Paul As I began to research Alice Paul, I found that she has a website dedicated to her. It is called the Alice Paul Institute. This website is dedicated to allowing Paul’s legacy to be remembered, recognized
Cassie Krone Dr. Gunes Ethics 8 September 2014 The readings in “The Elements of Moral Philosophy” and “Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life” make extremely strong arguments for both the ethical theories of cultural relativism and objectivism. After discussing these theories, I will show that objectivism is in fact the more defensible position between the two, and therefore should be the more widely accepted position in our society. Cultural relativism is the theory that all moral standards comes directly
But the mainstream music on the radio is mostly about female body parts shaking and grinding, having sex, getting really drunk, high, and/or violent. It is not entirely the fault of hip-hop artists there are people who do not know Malcom X, Susan B. Anthony, or Thurgood Marshall but most people will know overrated artists with trash lyrics such as Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Soulja Boy, and 2 Chainz.What once was a helpful tool for creating social change is now hurtful. Hip-hop has created a lot of
think about why this might be, and write down some thoughts on why this speech SHOULD be analyzed. While there appears to be a limited amount of research specifically focused on "The Destructive Male" speech, several scholarly works analyze Elizabeth Cady Stanton's work and contributions to the women's suffrage movement. The lack of dedicated research on this specific speech could be due to the following reasons: Its provocative title and potentially controversial arguments might have attracted