Women’s Suffrage
History 311
Elizabeth Dhaliwal
November 19, 2011
Woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched and protested in the name of getting the right to vote. Parades, silence and hunger strikes where used to demonstrate the need for a change in the constitution. The demand for the enfranchisement of American women was first seriously formulated at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, (Document #4). Voting and politics were seen as completely male domains and it was shocking to think of women involved in either. The primary argument of suffragists was that they were being denied one of the most basic rights of Democracy. They were expected to live under laws which they could not vote for and pay taxes to a government which did not represent them. Seen as a means to an end, suffrage gave women a voice and greater ammunition with which to make a difference. The movement brought the inequality of voting restrictions to public attention. If not for the movement known as suffrage and the means and lengths women went to to attain the vote, history would tell a different story.
People during this time viewed women as citizens, but only in regard to certain aspects. This did not include the right to vote. Women were viewed as inferior and too emotional to do something as important as vote. Women organized themselves into groups like the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the National Women’s Party (NWP), for example. The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was created in 1890 by multiple suffragists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. It helped in the goal of giving women the right to vote, but it was not the sole factor in that matter. The leaders of the National Woman Suffrage Association had many ways of showing that they wanted women to get the vote. The organization thought that it was better to be conservative than radical, especially considering the fact that it split off the National... [continues]
History 311
Elizabeth Dhaliwal
November 19, 2011
Woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched and protested in the name of getting the right to vote. Parades, silence and hunger strikes where used to demonstrate the need for a change in the constitution. The demand for the enfranchisement of American women was first seriously formulated at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, (Document #4). Voting and politics were seen as completely male domains and it was shocking to think of women involved in either. The primary argument of suffragists was that they were being denied one of the most basic rights of Democracy. They were expected to live under laws which they could not vote for and pay taxes to a government which did not represent them. Seen as a means to an end, suffrage gave women a voice and greater ammunition with which to make a difference. The movement brought the inequality of voting restrictions to public attention. If not for the movement known as suffrage and the means and lengths women went to to attain the vote, history would tell a different story.
People during this time viewed women as citizens, but only in regard to certain aspects. This did not include the right to vote. Women were viewed as inferior and too emotional to do something as important as vote. Women organized themselves into groups like the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the National Women’s Party (NWP), for example. The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was created in 1890 by multiple suffragists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. It helped in the goal of giving women the right to vote, but it was not the sole factor in that matter. The leaders of the National Woman Suffrage Association had many ways of showing that they wanted women to get the vote. The organization thought that it was better to be conservative than radical, especially considering the fact that it split off the National... [continues]
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