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The Role Of Women's Suffrage In The United States

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The rights and freedoms that women enjoy today did not come without struggle, and currently there is nowhere in the world women are treated equally to men. Henceforth the 17th hundreds women have been trying to affirm their position in the fabric of America. Early public policies treated wives and mothers as wards of their husbands and women in general were not considered citizens under the Constitution of the United States, the founding document referred of “men created equal”. Women were oppressed by gender and could not legally acquire land ownership, enter into contracts, initiate legal actions, acquire bank loans and wives that worked, their husbands controlled their money. Furthermore, women were barred from higher education, many professions and, public offices according to …show more content…

There have been two major reform efforts toward full citizenship of women in the United States; Women’s Suffrage or right to vote put together by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other women’s rights pioneers in 1848. These pioneers circulated petitions and lobbied Congress to amend the United States Constitution to enfranchise women with the right to vote. This was not easy undertaken, as women realized politician were uninterested in hearing what the disenfranchised group was trying to say. However, the women knew the only way this reform was to work it needed to win the right to vote for women and the movement propelled to a massive movement. Two groups that were instrumental in the mass movement of the suffrage were National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The NAWSA undertook campaigns to enfranchise women in individual states, and simultaneously

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