The women’s rights movement began in the 1800’s. Some participants that helped out a great deal in this movement were Sojourner Truth, Susan B Anthony, and Alice Paul. The cause of this movement was that women didn’t have equal rights as men and they were also not allowed to vote. The women wanted to be and feel equal to men.
If women were in school and got married they would have to drop out and take care of the kids, if they had kids. Even if they didn’t have kids they would still have to drop out to take care of all the household chores. If the married couple decided to get divorced the man would keep the kids. Also most women who were married could not work. If the women were poor they would have to work but they would earn less money then the men, even if the worked the some or even more amount of hours. Women even had laws to tell women how to dress.
Women felt that the deserved the same social, political, and economic rights as men. They decided to fight for the right to vote first because before the can change laws they would have to be able to vote. The right to vote was called suffrage, some the women who fought were called suffragettes. In order to get this right three quarters of the world would have to agree.
Women didn’t just fight for equal rights as men; they also fought to end slavery. After the end of the civil war they African American men and women the right to vote. The women found out that the 15th amendment only gave African American men the right to vote. In 1848 a group of suffragettes meet in
Seneca Falls and wrote a document called the Declaration of Sentiments based on the Declaration of Independence. This document stated the all men and women are equal and should be treated the same way in the
U.S. Many people see this as an important beginning in women struggle for women’s civil rights.
One way that women fought this movement was protesting. They would march down the city streets with picket signs. Not only women protested men also protested with the women.
This movement was successful because women earned the right to vote and created a document called the Declaration of Sentiments witch stated that all men and women are equal.
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