Women, both black and white, were mistreated and discriminated against during the nineteenth century. Men were incharge of everything. Some participants during the movement were Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Caddy Stanton, Carry Nation, Alice Paul, Anna Howard Shaw, Carrie Chapman Catt, Frances Willard and Mary Church Ferrell. Men were incharge of everything. They were incharge of the government, businesses and schools. Women had to stay home, cook and clean, where they could be under the control of men. Women were not allowed to vote, work or go to school. There were laws telling women what to wear. If there was a divorce, the men always had custody of the children, there was no fight. The Women’s Suffrage Movement was successful because they received the right to vote and are now treated as equal to men.
One injustice was that women had no control of their money. If women were married, the men took control of the wife’s money. If the women were not married, the father or older brother took control of the money. Another injustice was that women could not vote or run for president. Women could not even have jobs. A primary source was a document written about Alice Paul. The title was The Women’s Suffrage Movement-Alice Paul and was written during the 1920s. The document was about what Alice Paul did for not only her rights, but all the women’s rights.
In 1848, a group of 300 women fighting for the right to vote attended in
Seneca Falls, New York. They wrote a document called the Declaration of Sentiments. The Declaration of Sentiments was written telling that “all men and women are created equal” and that both men and women should be treated equally in the
U.S.
One method of resistance is protesting. The women protested for their rights. The women protested day after day to be treated equally amongst men.
One leader was Alice Paul. Alice Paul went to prison. While she was in prison she refused eat to gain attention for what she was fighting for. The prison officials held her down and forced her to eat. In 1920, because of the fighting Alice Paul and the other leaders did, American women got the right to vote.
The methods were successful because the women kept fighting and protesting. The government started paying attention to what they were fighting for and they got what they wanted.
One achievement was that Alice Paul campaigned to add the Equal Rights Amendment to the
U.S. constitution. Every year, Alice Paul pushed for the Equal Rights Amendment. The Government did not pass it. In 1972, Congress finally passed the Equal Rights Movement.
This movement is important to study because other people could follow and fight for what is right.
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