Women's Rights Movement Research Paper
The National Organization for Women and the Struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment
The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States extends over the nation’s history. Various leaders, accomplishments, and failures have formed the movement’s history. Beginning in the 19th century, activists concerned in the so called “women problem” worked to develop significance of the high-minded democratic principles reflected in the Declaration of Independence and the “nuts and bolts” structure in the U.S. Constitution to comprise women at an equivalent level with men. While John Adams partook in the 1789 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Abigail Adams asked her husband to “remember the ladies” in the meetings’ discussions. John Adams seemed …show more content…
The conference incorporated passage of the “Declaration of Sentiments”, which was incredibly alike in its choice of words to the Declaration of Independence that was written by Thomas Jefferson and given to King George to explain the colonies complaints in opposition to England. The debate over slavery and the sudden occurrence of the Civil War overshadowed the women’s rights movement. The movement lost momentum broke over passage and ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments at the war’s end. Women suffrage advocates such as Frederick Douglass and Lucy Stone argued that it was “the negro’s hour” and women’s constitutional rights would come later. Other supporters such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were …show more content…
Advocation of the Equal Rights Amendment was a relevant issue to NOW. The amendment had three key objectives, which were: “Section 1. Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.” Efforts were proven triumphant when Congress passed the amendment in 1972. However, simply passing the amendment in the two houses of Congress did not mean the work was
The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States extends over the nation’s history. Various leaders, accomplishments, and failures have formed the movement’s history. Beginning in the 19th century, activists concerned in the so called “women problem” worked to develop significance of the high-minded democratic principles reflected in the Declaration of Independence and the “nuts and bolts” structure in the U.S. Constitution to comprise women at an equivalent level with men. While John Adams partook in the 1789 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Abigail Adams asked her husband to “remember the ladies” in the meetings’ discussions. John Adams seemed …show more content…
The conference incorporated passage of the “Declaration of Sentiments”, which was incredibly alike in its choice of words to the Declaration of Independence that was written by Thomas Jefferson and given to King George to explain the colonies complaints in opposition to England. The debate over slavery and the sudden occurrence of the Civil War overshadowed the women’s rights movement. The movement lost momentum broke over passage and ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments at the war’s end. Women suffrage advocates such as Frederick Douglass and Lucy Stone argued that it was “the negro’s hour” and women’s constitutional rights would come later. Other supporters such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were …show more content…
Advocation of the Equal Rights Amendment was a relevant issue to NOW. The amendment had three key objectives, which were: “Section 1. Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.” Efforts were proven triumphant when Congress passed the amendment in 1972. However, simply passing the amendment in the two houses of Congress did not mean the work was