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    Fight‚ fight‚ fight‚ is what women did before and after the civil war for the rights women have now. Women then were to believe that they were best to take care of the home‚ kids‚ and their husbands. They did not have any rights to make decisions that concerned financials‚ politics‚ and many other things that did not concern the household. It was said that if women were allowed to vote it would disrupt social order. But they wanted to show that they would maintain it. Women were beginning to want

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    Brazil has a long and complicated history‚ naturally the history of women in Brazil is no different. Since the discovery of Brazil women have played a key role in the development and success of this South American country. From the coffee rush‚ to the discovery of gold‚ women have been a crucial part of the history of Brazil. The Women’s Suffrage movement was a result of the influence of powerful educated women‚ the industrial revolution‚ and the global suffrage movement. Expectations of Women

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    This primary source is a political cartoon that was drawn in 1909 by E.W. Gustin. He named it the “Election Day!” This cartoon was created to show men in America what would happen if they voted for women’s suffrage. At the time of the 1909 cartoon‚ there were several feminist movements in the United States. One movement is when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her partner‚ Susan B. Anthony launched the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) demanding the vote for women. Suffragists won victories in

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    Voters was formed the same year to educate women about political issues and candidates‚ as well as encourage participation in the political process. One of the founders was the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association‚ Carrie Chapman Catt. Read more: Roaring Twenties Political Events | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/list_7794192_roaring-twenties-political-events.html#ixzz1gYm7jWyN Sunday‚ William "Billy" 1862-1935 The Best-Known Evangelist in America. Billy Sunday entered

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    yet all of them had the same goal‚ which was to make the United States better for the people. This era was the start of building a better economy likewise fighting inequality against Women and African Americans. Reformers such as Alice Paul‚ Carrie Chapman Catt‚ Booker T. Washington and Du Bois fought equal rights and economic opportunities that helped influence future efforts

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    ~Dwight L. Moody This man‚ part of the social gospel movement‚ proclaimed the gospel of kindness and forgiveness and adapted the old-time religion to the facts of city life and founded an institute in 1889 ~James Gibbons An American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877‚ and as Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his death in 1921. Gibbons was elevated to the cardinalate in 1886‚ the second American to receive that distinction. ~Salvation

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    was a complex movement within the United States that underwent the five necessary stages needed for sociological change to occur. At the beginning of Iron Jawed Angels‚ a British suffragette Alice Paul along with Lucy Paul were talking with Carrie Chapman Catt in order to receive a permit to hold a parade to promote the suffragette

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    land-grant colleges Colleges and universities created from allocations of pubic land through the Morrell Act of 1862 and the Hatch Act of 1887. These grants helped fuel the boom in higher education in the late nineteenth century‚ and many of the today’s public universities derive from these grants. liberal Protestants Members of a branch of Protestantism that flourished from 1875 to 1925 and encouraged followers to use the Bible as a moral compass rather than to believe that the Bible represented

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    Origins of Women’s Suffrage in the U.S. During America’s early history as a nation‚ women were denied some of the key rights enjoyed by male citizens. For example‚ married women couldn’t own property and had no legal claim to any money they might earn‚ and no female had the right to vote. Women were expected to focus on housework and motherhood‚ not politics. Wyoming‚ the first state to grant voting rights to women‚ was also the first state to elect a female governor. Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977)

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    Chapter Twenty-one The Rise of Progressivism Major Concepts 1 - A number of writers and reformers in the period 1865-1914 discussed the growing gap between wealth and poverty in the United States. Compare and contrast the following authors’ explanations for this condition and their proposals for dealing with it. A. Henry George‚ Progress and Poverty B. Edward Bellamy‚ Looking Backward C. Andrew Carnegie‚ The Gospel of Wealth D. William Graham Sumner‚ What Social Classes Owe to Each Other E

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