The Womens Rights Movement

  The Women’s Rights Movement

                                                         By: Joe DiNapoli

                                                                    Class: 8-11

       My report is on the Women’s Rights Movement.  This Movement takes place in the 1800’s.  Some of the participants in the movement were Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carry Nation, and Alice Paul.  This movement was caused by women not having equal rights with men.  The women wanted equal rights with men and wanted the right to vote.  This movement was successful because women now have equal rights with men and are allowed the right to vote.

            One political injustice was that women were not allowed to vote.  One economic injustice was that women could not own property.  A primary source is the Declaration of Sentiments, which is based on the Declaration of Independence, and states that “all women and men are created equal.”  It was made up during women’s suffrage.  A group of 300 suffragettes met in
Seneca Falls, New York and wrote it.

            One method of resistance for the movement was protesting.  Women would march through the streets with signs for women’s rights.  Alice Paul wanted to change the U.S constitution, but men were in charge of the government.  She needed the public on her side.  So she organized a huge parade in Washington D.C, to show that
America wasn’t a democracy if 50% of the people couldn’t vote.  Alice Paul and the women’s suffrage movement’s methods were successful because women have equal rights with men now and are allowed to vote.

            One achievement was the nineteenth amendment, which stated that women were allowed to vote.  A related primary source is the nineteenth amendment, which was written in 1919, allowing women to vote.          

            This movement was important to study because women were fighting for their rights for many years.  They fought for their rights to vote and to have equal rights with men.  The movement’s struggles make me feel very lucky about the rights I have today.  Even though I am a boy and once I get older to be a man, I would be able to vote, it would affect me because women aren’t any better or worse than men and we should all have equal rights.