Women's Suffrage During The Reconstruction Era

Women’s Suffrage
By the end of Lincoln’s Reconstruction Era, America's economy doubled in size from the year 1877 to 1893. This period was trademarked the beginning of the industrial revolution. The revolution was sparked by new developments in the railroad industry and the telegraph. Through the massive industrial boom, the federal government failed to evolve its economic policies in accordance with its growing wealth, allowing corporations to monopolize certain industries. Almost all industries succumbed to powerful fat-cats, who created the most efficient and cost effective means of production through grueling work conditions and minuscule pay. The competition was fierce and survival of the fittest certainly contributed to the lives of those
Females were deemed insignificant to males for far too long and they grew tired of the unjust laws and felt they deserved unalienable rights; such as the right to vote. The mistreatment of women in the US traces back to colonial America where the term “housewife” was uprooted. A women’s occupation was reserved to caring for her family and the house. Since this time, things cultivated and women desired to make an impression on the world. The first women’s movement was called the female seminary movement and opened the minds of many young women to follow their dreams. The nature of uneducated women of the early 1800s changed immensely in the late 19th century. Now college educated women longed to put their cognition and dexterity to work for the welfare of others. The morality, decency, and devotion of women would be taken out of the home environment and placed into society, and start a movement that would transform America during the Gilded Age. Because of continuous efforts from many feminists, such as Alice Paul, the 19th amendment was ratified and women gained the right to vote. In the New York Times’, Let Her Come, a Suffrage Poem written in 1909, is talking about what changes would occur if women could vote. It describes that the “power of Votin’ Women on a poor defenseless world,” would clean up smoking, drinking, and crime. Women Suffrage was made possible
After years spent in England, she was recruited by militant suffragists, and this is where it all began for her. She enlightened herself mostly through all of the hardships she faced such as imprisonment, hunger strikes, and forced feeding. In 1909, an article titled, Alice Paul Describes Force Feeding, was an interview telling how dedicated Miss Paul was, she said that “sometimes they tied her to a chair with sheets,” just so they could shove a “tube in my nostril.” This article generated publicity and she promptly acted on it. In 1912, she started to work with the National American Women Suffrage Association, also known as NAWSA, which then transitioned to the emergence of the Congressional Union and then she renamed it the National Women’s Party. Paul claimed that many of the defects of the world during this time stemmed from the absence of women’s bureaucratic power and contribution to governmental decisions. Voluntarily, women of all age ranges came from all over the nation, to participate in the strike that was held in front of the White House which ultimately caught Woodrow’s attention. Paul’s efforts provoked President Woodrow Wilson to ratify the 19th Amendment, something he had formerly declined to do, yet her persistence surely paid off. While Paul contributed most of her effervescence on politics, Margaret Sanger worked towards the legalization of “birth control” because she believed “no woman can