The Ratification Of The Nineteenth Century

Throughout the centuries, women's lives have inmensely changed from the way they should behave to how they live their life. Women went from being seen as housewives whose only job was having meals prepared for their husbands and taking care of the children. In the 21st century, women are allowed to vote, work, and speak out for what they believe in. There are two important events, where women highly contributed to the success of the United States. In World War One, women worked in the armed forces as nurses. Consequently, in World War Two women had been offered multiple jobs such as nurses, being able to work in factories, and as secretaries. Women's rights movements throughout the nineteenth century mainly focused on gaining natural rights,
The change in woman's right did not come alone, what majorly helped was the nineteenth amendment was Susan B. Anthony’s address. The nineteenth amendment ensures that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied; on account of sex,” with this there was a start in the sprout in equality in both men and women (constitution). After the nineteenth amendment was passed women were able to legally vote in presidential elections. Allowing them to become politically involved in the community, which is how women's suffrage movement became
Anthony addressed to the public the crime that she committed by voting in the last presidential election. In her written address, Anthony made it clear by quoting The Declaration of Independence that women should be given the right to vote just like men since it is an essential unalienable right that needs to be equally granted for both sexes. Anthoney also addressed what the democratic and republican government focuses on “based on the idea of the natural right of every individual member thereof to a voice and a vote” in this she gives of that if the government is supportive of unalienable rights it should be for anyone not just men (Anthony 1). In her address, Anthony also mentioned that the government cannot take away the rights that the founding fathers have left for the country. She expresses how from the beginning of the creation of the country it was always intended to retain equal rights. Anthony used the preamble to express how fiercely she believed in equality for all genders, “It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens,” she sees “we” as everyone not just white males because to her the united states is not only composed of males (Anthony 1). Anthony gives to show that withoughout every one who makes up the population there would be no united