History & URLs for The Women's Suffrage Movement

History & URLs for The Women's Suffrage Movement by Alissa Gray - Monday, October 22, 2012, 05:26 PM

The woman suffrage promoted the liberation and freedom a women should have instead of the social inequality they were suffering from or even deprived by at that time period. The pioneers of women suffrage movement were as follows from History of Women's Suffrage,”The demand for the enfranchisement of American women was first seriously formulated at the Seneca Falls Convention (1848). After the Civil War, agitation by women for the ballot became increasingly vociferous. In 1869, however, a rift developed among feminists over the proposed 15th Amendment, which gave the vote to black men. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others refused to endorse the amendment because it did not give women the ballot. Other suffragists, however, including Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe, argued that once the black man was enfranchised, women would achieve their goal. As a result of the conflict, two organizations emerged. Stanton and Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association to work for suffrage on the federal level and to press for more extensive institutional changes, such as the granting of property rights to married women. Stone created the American Woman Suffrage Association, which aimed to secure the ballot through state legislation. In 1890 the two groups united under the name National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). In the same year Wyoming entered the Union, becoming the first state with general women's suffrage (which it had adopted as a territory in 1869).”1 Prohibition was a big issue was one of the firs moves women had an influence of promoting and passing, which prohibited all people to stop drinking, selling, and making alcohol whatsoever. This untimely stop and prevented tons of domestic abuse instances. That was one of the reasons it got passed was to cut down and eliminate domestic violence. According to this website called History about prohibition is explains,”In general the Prohibition Party was concerned about protection of home and family. Indeed one of the early, temporary names adopted by the Prohibition Party was the "Prohibition Home Protection Party." 2At this time women's suffrage was very closely tied to efforts of the Prohibition Party since the Democratic Party altogether rejected the concept and the Republican Party balked at it.”3 The website has allot more to talk about to, explaining all about Prohibition which co-sided with the women’s rights movement and suffrage. The even occurred right before women were allowed to vote but I think this gave women the power to make sure they are heard through voting as well. Women’s right to vote was pushed by the greatest pioneers of the Women’s suffrage group. I found a cool website that explains this and more.. I can’t imagine how it would be like if I wasn’t allowed to vote because I was a female. According to a timeline from the cool website called Votes for Women: Timeline that I had found it explains, “1869: The women's rights movement splits into two factions as a result of disagreements over the Fourteenth and soon-to-be-passed Fifteenth amendments.”4 Conclusion, women struggled a lot and fought a lot to get where we are today.I am so thankful of that, cause right now as a women, even if it is still not completely equal yet it has gotten allot closer than it use to be. We are still dealing with making the same amount of money as men. As well as other benefits and privledge Men still reciev before a women does. Men make 20% more then women a t same job. What a struggle women went through. The stories do a good job explaining some points of view on ow it was like. . All in all nothing really has changed about men making more money it's just evoled that women are working more than men and taking their jobs, so the stats read it differently because less men are working but that ones that are, are making more money then the women with the same jobs. 1 "History of Women's Suffrage | Scholastic.com." 2004. 22 Oct. 2012 <http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/suffrage/history.htm> 2 "History - The Prohibition Party." 22 Oct. 2012 <http://www.prohibition.org/new_page_3.htm> 3 "History - The Prohibition Party." 22 Oct. 2012 <http://www.prohibition.org/new_page_3.htm> 4 "Timeline from: A History of the American Suffragist Movement, © The ..." 22 Oct. 2012 <http://www.suffragist.com/timeline.htm>