Freedom And Equality In The 1900's

When people hear and talk about freedom and equality, they think about The United States of America. This is the first thing that comes up into their mind because this is a couple of things that America value. Freedom and equality is what America conducts in now, but throughout the 1900’s this was not the case. All genders back then were not all equal, in fact, women back then had the littlest of freedom and equality. Sometimes the women would make a stand for their gender, and sometimes the women would let the society control them. Two women who decided to make a stand for their sex were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott when they started the Women’s Suffrage Movement in 1913 (Table 1). This movement was created because women in the 1900’s wanted rights to own property, vote, and receive higher education. Eventually in 1920, the nineteenth amendment passed
The women in 1920 gained the right to vote when the nineteenth amendment passed, but other than that, women still had minimum rights. When the Civil War started, only men were able to fight for their beliefs on abolishing slavery or keeping in throughout America, not the women. So, the women took advantage in the oppurtunity that the war gave to them. Since all the men had left for the war, only women were in the communities, and that allowed them to start gathering loot for their family, and running the small businesses that their husband would start. The way that the women did the male jobs was fascinating because they were not accustomed to it, but still did them in an acceptable manner. This later then “demonstrated the future power of women rights” in the twentieth century (Pinsker). Although what the women did at home during the civil war helped gain them respect, they still had to face the hardships of The American Dream because they had little to zero right during the