The peaceful campaigning of the suffragists’ was a key factor in women receiving the vote. The suffragists’ started the whole route of women gaining the vote; they were the ever moving force behind the movement. However historian Martin Pugh suggests that “Suffragists would probably have done better to have made common cause with all unenfranchised men and women from the start and thereby they might have extended their appeal” because all men had not yet received the vote it was argued that women should not receive the franchise when it was not fully given to all men. However there were other contributing factors leading up to 1918 and women gaining the vote. They include the work of the suffragettes’ who caused chaos and grabbed the spotlight away from the suffragists’ after a group of women decided it was time to make a militant stand.
By demonstrating their beliefs publically they enlightened and gained many supporters, but at the same time faced much opposition. Many people did not like the idea of change, they felt as if men should be dominant and the only voice women should have was around the house. Despite the opposition their tactics proved to be successful because in 1920 the 19th amendment was ratified and women were given the right to vote. Alice Paul and her colleagues proved to be successful because of their passive aggressive tactics. The tactics that NAWSA and Carrie Chapman Catt lacked.
Before World War I, women had few rights. But their experience in the Great War changed that forever. Their views towards life changed or improved, and by the middle of the 19th century, women were demanding equality with men. They wanted the right to vote in elections and an equal chance to work and get educated. They also wanted the right to have their own possessions, to divorce their husbands, and to keep their children after divorce.
Source B comes from a labour party MP, Ramsay MacDonald who does support a revolution but he does not believe being violent by “breaking windows” is the way to do this. He describes them as being seen as “childish”, “silly and provocative”. Militancy gives the government an excuse not to support them, why would they give in to violence? Source C agrees that the militancy was important because “increasingly militant tactics” resulted in the Liberals “hardening its resistance” as can be seen by the ‘Cat and Mouse Act’ of 1913. This was where suffragette’s who had been arrested for violence would be allowed to go on a hunger strike letting them get weaker and weaker.
Harriet Beecher Stowe- She also didn’t agree with slavery and thought everyone should be free. 2. What methods did the person use to improve American life? Wendell Phillips- He would write articles and short books about the rights women and Native Americans should have, and he would also publicly speak and use his contacts in the government to try to reach out to people and get women the right to vote. Harriet Beecher Stowe- She wrote books, and articles.
The freedom women once felt turned into a life of fear. Riverbend shows many feminist views throughout the novel, but more so a view of a woman wanting peace and equality for both sexes in her country. Riverbend’s life changed drastically because of the war on terror and led to changes in gender issues, in her daily life and professional life. The United States only aided in further oppressing Arab women by not being fully
As the most gifted photographer to ever expose the poverty and suffrage of the Depression Years, Dorothea Lange left the world the same way she had taken on life, “with courage, grace and, perhaps with an anticipation to experience the visual life in a new venue.” (Oliver 7). Born on the 26th of May, 1895, in Hoboken, New Jersey, Lange was the first child of Joan and Henry Nutzhorn. Little did young Dorothea know at the age of six, that her carefree happiness would soon come to an end. In 1902, she contracted a permanent disease, polio, which left her with a heavy limp in her right leg. Her mother was to be the sole-provider for the family when her father, the successful lawyer, left the family in 1907.
Womens suffrage synthesis paper. Women have always been under suffrage from the superior male empowerment. they endure depression of rights such as voting and freedom of speech, the thought of women having such straightforward authority to do the bare bone basic in nationalistic movement of voting and cary an impact on our developed country is profound even today in the eyes of a man. people in general can ignore womens suffrage all they desire but it is sure to catch up to any who oppose it, the accusation that women ask to much of the present society almost as if they want more then they need, all together the men have stronger thought towards why women need to be relieved of there freedom. Women are always becoming more independent as time moves on, starting with only a few fighting for freedom to many thousands of women protesting for there rights.
Despite being warned of imprisonment she joined the women's suffrage movement in Britain and was arrested on several occasions, serving time in jail and going on a hunger strike. This did not prevent her from sneaking into political events, she still protested the government’s refusal to let women speak publicly, by not eating. Even though it was a difficult time in her life, she still managed to stand up for what she believed in. When she returned to the United States in 1910, Paul became involved in the women’s suffrage movement there as well. Driven also to change other laws that affected women, she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1912.
The journalist interview Nicole graves who told him/her that “We want to play the same game but we don’t want to play like blokes… we just want to play” this also makes us feel sympathetic towards the women AFL teams because at the moment they are not being able to play the same game on the same scale. I believe that you can’t tell people to watch women’s AFL because people might come for one game but then they will start comparing it to the men’s and be let down so I believe it is best the women don’t get the same publicity as men