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Jenn Spelas
Compare/Contrast
Due: 6-5-06
Women have fought for their rights and equality for years. Many countries have seen and felt the affects of women taking a stand. One of America’s more popular movements involving women was in the early 1900’s. It is now known as Women’s Suffrage.
For as long as women could remember, they had been looked upon as the weaker sex. As the phrase goes, women belonged in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. There was no place for them outside of the four walls of their homes. They were too fragile to work and too dumb to vote and have political opinions. Women never really sat quiet and took it though. In 1776 Abigail Adams asked her husband, John Adams, to “remember the ladies,” and by 1848 women had begun to organize themselves, and created the first Women’s Rights convention.
In the 1800’s Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton and a group of their friends decided that they were going to fight for their right to vote in all elections. They thought that the way to do this was by persuading each state individually. Even after Elizabeths death in 1902, and Susan’s death in 1906, the women kept going to states. They found that the leaders wanted nothing to do with the suffragist movement, and often told the ladies to just wait for their time to come. They finally began see a little progress. Washington state allowed women to vote in 1910, and California followed in 1911. Yes, it was some progress, but nothing close to what they wanted.
By 1916 the women’s suffrage movement split; the young radicals, against the older conservatives. Alice Paul became the leader of the National Women’s Party (NWP) and decided that they would gather a force of women then march straight to the White House. They were frustrated with the way things had been going, and the very little progress. The women had been suppressed for hundreds of years, and in Alice Paul’s mind, it was time to get what they wanted.
While the older group continued to talk to governors, and the president over tea, NWP used “Sentinels of Liberty.” They would stand silently at the White House with banners and posters everyday in any weather condition. They would stand in small groups, so after a certain amount of time, another group would relieve them for a time. It only lasted six months before women began getting arrested. Approximately 500 women were arrested and 168 actually spent time in jail. The women were not treated well in jail, but they kept their spirits up and continued the fight. But that year, 1917, a few more states came to their side. That news uplifted the morale of the women.
During all of this, the other suffragist group was still going house to house, but were seeing no progress from their labor. There was much strife between the two groups, because Alice Paul didn’t have the money that the others did. She was new and was considered radical. People feared the selfless passion they saw in her. http://www.dpsinfo.com/women/history/timeline.html
Compare/Contrast
Due: 6-5-06
Women have fought for their rights and equality for years. Many countries have seen and felt the affects of women taking a stand. One of America’s more popular movements involving women was in the early 1900’s. It is now known as Women’s Suffrage.
For as long as women could remember, they had been looked upon as the weaker sex. As the phrase goes, women belonged in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. There was no place for them outside of the four walls of their homes. They were too fragile to work and too dumb to vote and have political opinions. Women never really sat quiet and took it though. In 1776 Abigail Adams asked her husband, John Adams, to “remember the ladies,” and by 1848 women had begun to organize themselves, and created the first Women’s Rights convention.
In the 1800’s Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton and a group of their friends decided that they were going to fight for their right to vote in all elections. They thought that the way to do this was by persuading each state individually. Even after Elizabeths death in 1902, and Susan’s death in 1906, the women kept going to states. They found that the leaders wanted nothing to do with the suffragist movement, and often told the ladies to just wait for their time to come. They finally began see a little progress. Washington state allowed women to vote in 1910, and California followed in 1911. Yes, it was some progress, but nothing close to what they wanted.
By 1916 the women’s suffrage movement split; the young radicals, against the older conservatives. Alice Paul became the leader of the National Women’s Party (NWP) and decided that they would gather a force of women then march straight to the White House. They were frustrated with the way things had been going, and the very little progress. The women had been suppressed for hundreds of years, and in Alice Paul’s mind, it was time to get what they wanted.
While the older group continued to talk to governors, and the president over tea, NWP used “Sentinels of Liberty.” They would stand silently at the White House with banners and posters everyday in any weather condition. They would stand in small groups, so after a certain amount of time, another group would relieve them for a time. It only lasted six months before women began getting arrested. Approximately 500 women were arrested and 168 actually spent time in jail. The women were not treated well in jail, but they kept their spirits up and continued the fight. But that year, 1917, a few more states came to their side. That news uplifted the morale of the women.
During all of this, the other suffragist group was still going house to house, but were seeing no progress from their labor. There was much strife between the two groups, because Alice Paul didn’t have the money that the others did. She was new and was considered radical. People feared the selfless passion they saw in her. http://www.dpsinfo.com/women/history/timeline.html