This ID refers to the political and economic struggle to gain the right to vote for women. Pamphlets and literature date this movement’s beginning to the early 1800s, but didn’t gain sufficient headway in the United States until the later part of the 19th century. It was a movement that meant equality in the political arena, because gaining the right to vote for women meant that they could start to control their own lives, and maintain some force over their futures, and their next generation’s daughters’ futures. In economic aspects, it meant that having the right to vote could determine future laws that considered a woman, like abortion and equal pay (the glass ceiling, if you will). Voting was just the start, but it meant that women could gain more control over their lives and the lives of heir families, because they had to power to control the enforced laws, and fight to change them, if they felt that they were being violated of their basic human rights. Suffrage meant control over a woman’s life, and to gain the ability to choose her own life.
Suffrage gained considerable power until Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony when they started the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. These two women thought it was important enough that women control their own lives and have choices made available to them, that they fought day and night to gain access to Congressional hearings and fiercely defended women’s rights in the home (economic) and in the working field (economic and political). Lucy Stone created another, perhaps more conservative, association, called American Woman Suffrage Association, also in 1869. Both these leagues merged together to be headed by Susan B. Anthony, under the title of National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890.
Women of the 1800s wanted to be heard; they wanted a voice and a choice. This was their movement.
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[Stephanie Lestelle]
This ID refers to the political and economic struggle to gain the right to vote for women. Pamphlets and literature date this movement’s beginning to the early 1800s, but didn’t gain sufficient headway in the United States until the later part of the 19th century. It was a movement that meant equality in the political arena, because gaining the right to vote for women meant that they could start to control their own lives, and maintain some force over their futures, and their next generation’s daughters’ futures. In economic aspects, it meant that having the right to vote could determine future laws that considered a woman, like abortion and equal pay (the glass ceiling, if you will). Voting was just the start, but it meant that women could gain more control over their lives and the lives of heir families, because they had to power to control the enforced laws, and fight to change them, if they felt that they were being violated of their basic human rights. Suffrage meant control over a woman’s life, and to gain the ability to choose her own life.
Suffrage gained considerable power until Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony when they started the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. These two women thought it was important enough that women control their own lives and have choices made available to them, that they fought day and night to gain access to Congressional hearings and fiercely defended women’s rights in the home (economic) and in the working field (economic and political). Lucy Stone created another, perhaps more conservative, association, called American Woman Suffrage Association, also in 1869. Both these leagues merged together to be headed by Susan B. Anthony, under the title of National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890.
Women of the 1800s wanted to be heard; they wanted a voice and a choice. This was their movement.
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