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    Before the Women’s Suffrage movement began‚ women faced hardships that would later motivate them to take a stand for women’s rights. Women were‚ at that time‚ being abused and mistreated by men and society‚ in order to gain what was necessary to survive during this time in American history. The industrial revolution had just swept the nation by surprise. The industrial revolution changed the process of production from hand tools and man labor‚ to power driven machinery. (Dublin). This change from

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    Women used many methods including parades‚ picketing and hunger strikes to gain the right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. One tactic women used to gain suffrage was hosting a parade on the day of President Wilson’s inauguration. The parade was meant bring awareness and to gain support for women’s suffrage. The women needed support from the people who can vote‚ if they were to have any hope of getting an amendment assuring women the right to vote. Women suffragists made floats and banners

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    1870 included abolitionism which gave rise to the women’s movement who in their quest for equal rights of women that included the ownership to property and right to vote‚ the sort out to abolish slavery as well. Abolitionism garnered male supporters for the women’s movement like Frederick Douglass‚ Henry Blackwell and William Lloyd Garrison. 1 The First Wave of the Feminist Movement. The Women’s Suffrage Movement The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States in the period 1848-1920‚ formed a

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    for the women’s rights movement." (Imbornoni‚ n.d.) From then on‚ this struggle lasted long over 72 years. The women’s suffrage movement was of enormous political and social significance in the American history and greatly changed life for women in America. (Cooney‚ n.d.) The report will focus on the ways to launch the women’s suffrage campaign‚ changes taking place in American women’s life and the significance of the women’s suffrage movement. The women’s suffrage movement never resorted to the war

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    pushing to be treated equally for a long time. This problem has always haunted america’s past‚ present‚ and future. It took a organization of women to do something about it. The women’s suffrage movement was a movement that was formed when women were not allowed to vote‚ or be treated equally. The women’s suffrage movement happened not just in the United States but also in Europe and other countries. Once women from other countries seen women were sick of being treated any type of way they started to

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    “Discuss the methods used in the Women’s Suffrage Movement” The Suffragette’s were a group involved in the Women’s Suffrage Movement of the 19th and 20th century. The struggle for equality for women in Great Britain started long before the turn of the 20th Century. Not all suffragettes agreed with militancy. The movement split into two major factions: The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Society (NUWSS) led by Millicent Fawcett and The Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) led by Emmaline

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    women’s suffrage movement. It took a long time‚ but the women won the battle! Leaders like Susan B. Anthony‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Lucy Stone and many more are behind this victory. One of Susan B. Anthony’s quote is “No genuine equality‚ no real freedom‚ no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.” The 19th Amendment declared the right for women to vote‚ after a long battle know as the Women’s Suffrage movement and the Women’s Suffrage Movement had

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    Kayla Benware Professor Donnelly History 202 Research Paper Fall 2011 Women’s Suffrage Movement Impact on the United States Woman suffrage in the United States was achieved gradually through the 19th and early 20th Century. The women’s suffrage movement concluded in 1920 with a famous passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution which stated: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of

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    Catalysts in the Women’s Suffrage Movement There were particular women who worked tirelessly throughout their lives to obtain the right for women to vote‚ and they became some of the most important catalysts involved in the fight for the women’s suffrage from 1848 to 1920. Alice Paul was an American suffragist‚ women’s rights activist‚ and the main leader of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment which was ratified in 1920. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were earlier social reformers

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    for office which was later known as the woman’s suffrage. During this time period‚ only men were sought out as equals and acceptable to vote and/or run for office‚ whereas women were not viewed as working class citizens. In the middle of the 19th century‚ there was a demand in woman’s equality that became profound and well know as well as continuing to be a transformative history in time and today (Brown‚ 1993). Before the woman’s suffrage movement‚ women were not seen as citizens only as housewives

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