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Mar 13, 2018 · During the first half of the nineteenth century, the evangelical fires of the Second Great Awakening swept the nation. With the Second Great Awakening came the rise of a more active and optimistic religious sensibility. During the same decades, the role of women in America changed.
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The campaign for women’s suffrage began in earnest in the decades before the Civil War. During the 1820s and '30s, most states had extended the franchise to all white men, regardless of how much money or property they had. At the same time, all sorts of reform groups were proliferating across the United States—temperance leagues, religious movement...
In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists—mostly women, but some men—gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the problem of women’s rights. They were invited there by the reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Most of the delegates to the Seneca Falls Conventionagreed: American women were autonomous individuals who deserved thei...
During the 1850s, the women’s rights movement gathered steam, but lost momentum when the Civil War began. Almost immediately after the war ended, the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment to the Constitutionraised familiar questions of suffrage and citizenship. The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, extends the Constitution’s protection to all citiz...
This animosity eventually faded, and in 1890 the two groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the organization’s first president. By then, the suffragists’ approach had changed. Instead of arguing that women deserved the same rights and responsibilities as men because women and men were “cre...
Starting in 1910, some states in the West began to extend the vote to women for the first time in almost 20 years. Idaho and Utah had given women the right to vote at the end of the 19th century. Still, southern and eastern states resisted. In 1916, NAWSA president Carrie Chapman Cattunveiled what she called a “Winning Plan” to get the vote at last...
Feb 26, 2019 · Sixty-eight women and 32 men (including Frederick Douglass) sign the Declaration of Sentiments, which sparked decades of activism, eventually leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment...
The women’s suffrage movement made the question of women’s voting rights into an important political issue in the 19th century. The struggle was particularly intense in Great Britain and in the United States , but those countries were not the first to grant women the right to vote, at least not on a national basis.
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- The women’s suffrage movement fought for the right of women by law to vote in national or local elections.
- By the early years of the 20th century, women had won the right to vote in national elections in New Zealand (1893), Australia (1902), Finland (190...
- In the 21st century most countries allow women to vote. In Saudi Arabia women were allowed to vote in municipal elections for the first time in 201...
Mar 8, 2014 · What 19th-century women really did In a talk on Monday (10 March, 2014) Sophie McGeevor (Faculty of History) will explain how her research into a collection of autobiographies by working class women is helping to fill a gap in our knowledge of the occupational structure of 19th century Britain.
Mar 2, 2018 · Women’s History. Early Women’s Rights Activists Wanted Much More than Suffrage. Voting wasn't their only goal, or even their main one. They battled racism, economic oppression and sexual...
