Essays on Women's Suffrage

Women fought so they would be able to vote in the elections. The Women’s Suffrage movement started in 1848. Suffragists are people, mainly women who advocate for women’s rights. For years, women’s suffrage supporters continued to educate anyone about the importance of women’s suffrage. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other suffragists distributed petitions…

Gender has played a major role in politics in The United States and specifically in the presidential elections. In politics, it could be differences in opinion between men and women regarding general political issues and candidates. Prior to 1920, women did not have the right to vote. Constitutionally, only white males of certain religions, who…

When reading a book, or any piece of literature of that matter, the readers background is important. It is apart of how the reader perceives the piece. Two different readers with different viewpoints and backgrounds are naturally going to have different opinions and will analyze the same piece of writing very differently. For example, a…

Today women are given several opportunities other individuals are denied: these opportunities include but aren’t limited to divorce rights and property ownership. When asked whom to thank for the civil liberties they possess women often answer “Harriet Beecher Stowe”, “Susan B. Anthony” or even “Elizabeth Cady Stanton”. These women are very important. However, a very…

Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, PA, on Nov. 29, 1832, and she was the second daughter of Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott. She had an older sister Anna and two younger sisters Elizabeth and May. The family moved to Boston, MA in 1834, where her father set up an experimental school that…

There are many things that is wrong with the government voting system: long lines at polling stations, broken machines, voter intimidation, and more. We can at least take acknowledgment in the fact that, in theory anyway, all citizens in good standing, men and women alike, very much have the right to vote. This wasn’t always…

The journey for women achieving the right to vote has been very long and certainly not easy. “A total of 131 years after the initial implementation of the United States Constitution, women were at last explicitly included in ‘We the People.’ That is indeed something to celebrate.” The work of thousands of women and men…

Helen “Nellie” Laetitia Mooney was born October 20, 1873 in a log cabin on Garafraxa Road, two kilometers from Chatsworth, Ontario. She and her family moved to Manitoba when she was six years old. One of Nellie’s best influences was her mother. Her family’s influence was no doubt the reason she became an activist. Her…

I could not imagine my mother, grandmother or sister not being allowed to vote, because they are female. Before the nineteen hundreds, woman were not allowed to vote, mostly white men. Congress took a stand against gender discrimination and passed laws that allowed women to have the same rights as men to vote. This law…

It was a splendid morning, as the sun’s luminous rays radiated from behind my curtains. I was awaiting my mother’s arrival from her early morning activities, because we needed to catch the train to a suffragette protest. Although we strongly enjoyed talking about the subject, this was a topic we never discussed in public. Most…