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    Women suffrage act was when women were not allowed to vote and were forced to stay home and do the house work and were not allowed to do anything besides that and only to take care of the house and the kids. Back in that time women didn’t have much freedom just do as the men told them to do. The national American woman suffrage association they began to understand that their ideas were too forceful for the established activists. Over time the national American woman suffrage association problems

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    Do you know one of the women who fought for women’s suffrage? Lucy Burns was her name and she was an American suffragist and women’s rights advocate. Lucy had a childhood where it was very fortunate and lucky because her father believed in educating children of both genders. Lucy was born on July 28‚ 1879 in Brooklyn‚ New York. She was raised as an Irish Catholic and was the fourth of 8 children. She attended Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights. Lucy was tall‚ had blazing red hair

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    1(a) Study Source A. What role did the Women’s Suffrage Movement play during the ‘Quiet Revolution’ in The Bahamas? (7) To get the full marks you must give four or more factors with good explanation and provide a logical conclusion. In other words you must give four or more facts/major points that explain the role the Women’s Suffrage Movement played in the ‘Quiet Revolution’ in The Bahamas. Write moncurda@yahoo.com‚ moncurda@gmail.com‚ and augustusmoncur@hotmail.com for help with these questions

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    in the suffrage movement contributed to achieve women’s rights today‚ but some became leaders‚ being the driving force behind the revolution. One of the most important leaders in the women’s rights movements was Susan B. Anthony. As a child‚ her family was very active in reform movements‚ working for prohibition of alcohol and the anti-slavery movement. Growing older‚ she realized that she could help make a difference in how women were treated‚ and founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association

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    joining women’s rights movement‚ and woman suffrage. Susan B. Anthony was also an influential speaker of the women’s labor organization and a strong supporter of the abolition of slavery. Throughout her life‚ she was able to create great and powerful speeches that have persuaded certain universities to admit women into the university such as the University of Rochester. One of her greatest accomplishment of her speeches was called “Woman’s Right to Suffrage” and this speech was used during the women’s

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    The Tides of Change Throughout American history‚ there have been many movements that have had varying impacts‚ but none as extensive and influential as the labor and woman’s suffrage movements. Both arose during the Progressive era in which reform movements swept across the United States to eliminate problems caused by industrialization and urbanization. Small-scale business operations were soon replaced by much larger corporation based ones that supported themselves on the hard labor of the

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    and provides a foundation for the next wave to build from. The first wave focused primarily on gaining women ’s suffrage (the right to vote). Susan B. Anthony was one of many prominent leaders from the United States at this time. She faced charges for casting a vote prior to it being legal to do so. She later became the president of the National American Women ’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The end of the first wave is often linked with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United

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    teacher refused to teach her long division .Susan and her siblings started attending an education program which her father Daniel Anthony founded Susan was best known for fighting for women’s rights. Susan was part of the women’s suffrage movement . The women’s suffrage movement

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    Now in the present times we can see how strong and powerful women’s voices are in the United States‚ but if we look back in history in the 1800s we can see how this was not the case back then. A great women’s activist and the former of the women’s suffrage movement Susan B. Anthony worked hard to obtain women’s right to vote. She was born on February 15‚ 1820 in Adams‚ Massachusetts. She was raised in Quaker family that believed women’s were equal to men; and should be able to have the same rights

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    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 significant of the “First Wave” of the Feminist Movement. Woman suffrage is defined as the right of women to vote. The Women’s Suffrage Movement is the organized efforts

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