Women's Suffrage (Iron Jawed Angels Movie)

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Frankie Sutton Quinn CP US History II 20 October 2012 A Battle for Woman's Suffrage In the United States today, according to a 2010 census, more than half of the country consists of females. If woman still did not have suffrage rights, then more than half of the United States' voices would not be heard during elections. About one-hundred years ago, women in the United States did not have the right to vote, but thanks to heroic women like Alice Paul, women now have the privilege of voting. With her persistence and dedication along with many other women, woman's suffrage had been ratified in the nineteenth amendment of the United States. Alice Paul initially was apart of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), which was formed in 1890. Woman's suffragists such as Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Anna Howard Shaw were highly involved with NAWSA. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns used different, more aggressive methods than other women suffragists before them. Before President Woodrow Wilson's Inauguration, Alice Paul had planned a Woman's rights parade to help expand her opinion that women should have the right to vote. Many men were outraged by this parade and ended the parade in a brawl. Although, it did not end how she expected, and some of the women involved in the parade were injured, it made front-page newspaper headlines, which was what she had wanted and considered the parade a success. However, Carrie Chapman Catt disagreed with Alice Paul's aggressive strategies for raising the awareness of woman's suffrage. Their conflicts eventually lead to Alice Paul's departure from NAWSA, and her formation of the National Woman's Party (NWP). The NWP consisted of women that were dedicated to fundraising and raising the awareness of woman's suffrage around the United States. Unlike Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul focused on a
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