Throughout the nineteenth century, women's rights became apparent because of the civil war as seen through women's effects of economic, social, cultural, and political landscape of the nation. ... Women would later gain the right to vote with the passing of the nineteenth amendment. ... Similarly, the fact that women could not vote in the nineteenth century was of no impedance to Dorothea Dix. ... The nineteenth century were pivotal years in the evolution of women's rights in America. ... Therefore, these stepping stone paved the way for women's right, even for Hillary Cli...

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The concept of single women, as we know it today, has drastically changed since the Nineteenth Century. ... In terms of women's rights, the Nineteenth Century was very different from the Twenty-First Century life that is familiar to us. ... In conclusion, life in the Nineteenth Century would've been difficult for any single woman to handle. ...

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Part I: The Emergence of a Popular Women's Consciousness The great thing was women woke up an in18th century. ... "The emergence of a popular woman's consciousness of difference from, and antagonism to, men, developing through four phases of women's religious activity, from the mid eighteenth century through the late nineteenth century." ... In the latter half of the nineteenth century, although women's religious activity began to beyond the way they used to do, they liked a such young baby who could not be independent from the parent. ... The WCTU played a sig...

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Then the first Women's Rights Convention was held on July nineteenth and twentieth in 1848. ... The women's rights movement of the late nineteenth century went on to address the wide range of issues spelled out at the Seneca Falls Convention. ... Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt were leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in the early years of the 20th century, who got the campaign to its final success. ...

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Certainly the grabbing, hooting, hollering, and exploitation, would not be as accepted in today's society as it was some fifty years ago. 2 So, I had to wonder about the changing role of women, expectations placed on them as well as their accepted role in society, over the last century. ... Women were still fighting for the nineteenth amendment to pass (the right to vote and not to be discriminated based on sex), they wanted to be able to practice every right which a man would practice. The nineteenth amendment was passed in 1920, but still women were not granted much personal an...

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the best known and most conspicuous advocate of woman's rights in the nineteenth century. ... Stanton was the first person to launch every major advance achieved for woman in the nineteenth century and many of the reforms occurring in the twentieth century. ...

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Jerome in the fourth century and St. ... This ideal, known at The Cult of True Womanhood, was presented to women of the nineteenth century by women's magazines, annuals, and religious literature (Welter 151). ... Postwar economic changes in the late nineteenth century resulted in women beginning to work outside the home in increasing numbers. ... The social, economic and political changes that shook the South at the end of the nineteenth century greatly influenced the lives of its women. ... As the nineteenth century drew to a close, the southern lady, long condemned to life on a pede...

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Later on, she campaigned hard to get the nineteenth amendment passed in 1920, which allowed women to vote. ... Rosa Parks is considered to be one of the most important people of the 20th century. ... John Winthrop's message of "the city on the hill" illustrates what has been accomplished over the past century. ...

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The phrase "women's era" was fast becoming commonplace as women moved ever more from the private sector to the public one at the turn of the century. "What women looked to as they marched confidently into the next century was a new, improved womanhood and motherhood that would make its decisive imprint on a better society. 1 The twentieth century women's organizations placed much emphasis on the importance and rights of mothers and potential mothers. ... Hull House "provided members with a lifelong substitute for family life" that enabled women to commit their energies tow...

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Women of the nineteenth century were not treated with the respect that most women of today obtain. ... The women of the twenty-first century, however, are more educated and have the opportunity to establish a career of their own. Although today, most women do not receive the equivalent treatment as men, they are allowed more privileges than have been granted to women in the centuries before. ...

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By the early 19th century, however, acceptable occupations for working women were limited to factory labor or domestic work. ... Corset wearing, however, slowly became less popular as the century dragged on. ... At the end of the nineteenth century, women became more drawn to sports. ...

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Women of the nineteenth century were not treated with the respect that most women of today obtain. ... The women of the twenty-first century, however, are more educated and have the opportunity to establish a career of their own. Although today, most women do not receive the equivalent treatment as men, they are allowed more privileges than have been granted to women in the centuries before. ...

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Susan B Anthony Born February 15, 1820 in Adams Massachutes. An avid women's rights advocate, abolitionist and temperance fighter, Susan B. Anthony was a woman to be reckoned with in the late 19th century. Born a quacker to a family with a long line of activists and activist traditions, Susan B. An...

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Women in previous centuries were expected to depend on their husbands or fathers for everything they needed, and as I said before were supposed to remain involved only in household affairs. ... The nineteenth amendment says " The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridge by the United States or by any state on account of sex." ...

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