Women Fight for what’s Right By: Clarine S.
During the late 1800s not everyone in
America was treated equal to the average white male. Men ran everything and the women did not like that. The women wanted to make a change. The women of
America wanted to be able to have a say in there government. In those days women could make there babies and raise them but if they were to separate from there husband, there husband would get everything. The movement was successful because the women would not rest until they got what they dissevered!
One economic injustice that women of the late 1800s faced was women could work but they would get less money than a man, even if they did the same job. If the woman was not married all of her money would go to her father or her husband. Women couldn’t even buy or own property.
The women felt that that once they were able to vote they could change things so they started to protest. Women that fought for the right to vote were called suffragettes. In order to be able to vote they would need help from the men in Congress in order to change the constitution. Then they would have to convince at lest three quarters of
America to agree with them. Susan B. Anthony was someone famous for fighting for her rights. She was a Quaker abolitionist in rural
New York. She fought for equal pay to men, to be able to go to college, and coeducation.
After the civil war in 1848, a group of about 300 suffragettes went to
Seneca Falls, New York. They wrote a document called the Declaration of Sentiments. This document stated that “all men and women are created equal, and should be treated equally in the
United States. In 1920, Women were granted the right to vote.
This movement is important to study because if it wasn’t for the women in those times to step up and fight for what’s right, things would not be the same. Women might still not have the right to vote. I feel that because of the struggles they made I might not have the rights I have know I couldn’t go to school or work for and get the same pay as men. I thank the brave women of the 1800s!
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