The Progressive Movement was a time period that increased social activism and political reform, in the United States, during the 1890's to 1920. ... The Progressive Movement was for causes of business practices, working conditions, and the gap between rich and poor. ... This movement increased awareness about the issue of women suffrage of low income and voting rights. ... Leaders have realized that when they are put into office, they are expected to complete the tasks they were elected to do. ... Other acts were passed that helped with issues concerning citizens, such as poverty issues a...

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The Progressive Movement was a time period that increased social activism and political reform, in the United States, during the 1890's to 1920. ... The Progressive Movement was for causes of business practices, working conditions, and the gap between rich and poor. ... This movement increased awareness about the issue of women suffrage of low income and voting rights. ... Leaders have realized that when they are put into office, they are expected to complete the tasks they were elected to do. ... Other acts were passed that helped with issues concerning citizens, such as poverty issues a...

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This movement was partially successful in the United States. ... The Feminist movement is often defined as a movement that advocates equal rights for women. ... The suffrage movement was not a united movement. ... During World War I NAWSA leaders worked both for Suffrage and in support of the war effort. ... It reminds us of the necessity of progressive leaders, organizers, and visionaries in every local community. ...

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Progressivism began as a social movement and grew into a political movement. ... Progressives' especially middle class female activists helped spearhead the movement for laws that restricted child labor in 38 states by the late nineteenth century. ... As the Progressive Movement strengthened it enticed many people, feminists used the platform to gain support for woman suffrage. ... After the turn of the century, leaders of a new association, the Congressional Union, took the campaign to the national level. ... Ida Tarbell also brought about change, she wrote History of Standard Oil Comp...

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The Women's Movement was filled with many innovations throughout the 19th and 20th century. ... The Women's Movement brought together notable women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. ... Infamously synonymous with this movement was Susan B. Anthony, an accomplished Quaker, teacher, temperance and Abolition organizer, and Women's Rights leader. ... She became the face and name of the Women's Suffrage Movement, so much so, that the 19th Amendment to the U.S. ...

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Stanton was a leader in the women's rights movement and they became close friends and allies. Susan became completely loyal to the cause of women's rights and became an important leader of the movement. ... However, after the war many people showed small interest in supporting the women's rights movement and they then left the abolitionists to concentrate on their focus of women's rights. ... On this day we celebrate the accomplishments of an exemplary leader for women. ...

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I believe that in order to be an effective leader, leaders must have the quality of inspiration. Being inspirational is important because leaders envision a better future and enlist others to act. ... Leaders enlist others by appealing to common ideas, dreams and values in order to make images of the future. ... She was an early leader in the women's rights movement. The women's rights movement embraced the idea of feminism; which is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed to provide equality amongst the sexes. ...

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This so- called "second wave" of the women's rights movement revived the ERA debate. One of the most prominent leaders of this "second wave" in women's lib was one of Peoria's own, Betty Friedan. ... In the 1970's the women's movement had continued to zero in on the passing of the Equal Rights Amendment. ...

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This so- called "second wave" of the women's rights movement revived the ERA debate. One of the most prominent leaders of this "second wave" in women's lib was one of Peoria's own, Betty Friedan. ... In the 1970's the women's movement had continued to zero in on the passing of the Equal Rights Amendment. ...

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Race over Gender Many fought for the rights and equality of African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. ... This clearly shows that Hamer placed race above gender in her efforts in the Civil Rights Movement. ... Hamer, ultimately, lost this battle when the Civil Rights Movement accomplished its goal in the Civil Rights Act in 1968, and she went on to fight other battles, but disappeared from the public eye and is unknown to many today because she was a female leader and as such, did not have many of her action recorded in written history. Many women fought for the rights of African ...

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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. ... There were some very important women involved in the Women's Right Movement. ... Abigail Scott Duniway was the leader of the successful fight in the early 1900s. ... 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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The Women's Movement was filled with many innovations throughout the 19th and 20th century. ... The Women's Movement brought together notable women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. ... Infamously synonymous with this movement was Susan B. Anthony, an accomplished Quaker, teacher, temperance and Abolition organizer, and Women's Rights leader. ... She became the face and name of the Women's Suffrage Movement, so much so, that the 19th Amendment to the U.S. ...

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The Women's Rights Movement started around the late 1700's and is still being continued by the women of today. ... This in part inspired the key women involved in the early Women's Rights Movement (Encarta). ... One hundred to three hundred people came and supported the movement, both female and male (Encarta). ... Lucretia Coffin Mott was another of the main women in the movement. ... Lucretia Coffin Mott was a leader in women's right's organizations until her death in 1880 (www.mott.pomona.edu/mott1.htm). ...

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During this period many great leaders and reformers emerged, fighting both for the rights of African Americans and for the rights of women. One of these great leaders was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. ... In the beginning, the women's movement was not just a single-issue movement. ... Later in the movement she introduced many controversial beliefs that many critics would say discredited her accountability as a great leader (Banner 159). ... Stanton, realized that her time as a key leader of the movement was running out. ...

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During this period many great leaders and reformers emerged, fighting both for the rights of African Americans and for the rights of women. One of these great leaders was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. ... In the beginning, the women's movement was not just a single-issue movement. ... Later in the movement she introduced many controversial beliefs that many critics would say discredited her accountability as a great leader (Banner 159). ... Stanton, realized that her time as a key leader of the movement was running out. ...

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Young women who were active in this movement gained experience in the politics of protest, but found that movement leaders often viewed women's issues as trivial and relegated them to gender- stereotyped jobs. ... With this, movement women finally managed to do something only for themselves. ... In 1970's, the women's movement had a great impact on national public policy. ... As a reaction to those results, men tried to stop their movement and in a kind of way, they managed to do so. ... Employing paid leaders and professional staff, who used mainstream tactics as lobbying and f...

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The WCTU played a significant role in the temperance movement of the last two decades of the nineteenth century. ... They have their own specifically conscious, leaders, organization, conventions, council. ... In May 1874, the movement was introduced into Canada by Mrs. ... In the processing, there was raising a bunch of leaders. ... Part III: The work of WCTU Not like very beginning of the women's movement, the WCTU had their own consciousness, independent organization, cadres of leaders. ...

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2.What are the leader's contributions? ... 3.What kind of effect has this leader had on others? ... I had decided on three claims: Leader's Context, Leaders Contributions, and Life after Leader. ... Many did not want Truth to speak as they felt, despite ever hearing her speak, that she would change to meeting into a civil rights movement. ... Truth is remembered as one of the foremost leaders of the abolition movement and an early advocate of woman's rights. ...

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The temperance movement of this time was the result of disgusted citizens and abused wives. ... Anthony led women's rights movement. ... Prison reform was not a movement led only by males. One of this movement's most famous leaders was Dorthea Dix, who after viewing prisons that had jailed mentally disabled alongside murders and other scum of society had written letters demanding the improvement of the prison system. ... Perhaps the most involved and important reform movement was abolitionism. ...

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Anthony was a pioneer leader in the cause of women suffrage, and her energy was tireless in working for what she considered to be the best interests of womankind. ... Miss Anthony contributed to the women suffrage movement by founding a national organization, public lecturing, and putting national focus on the suffrage issue. ... Her active participation in the movement for women suffrage started in the eighteen-fifties. ... Anthony started the women suffrage movement, but died before women gained the right to vote. ...

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In the U.S. the women's-suffrage movement arose from the antislavery movement and the emergence of such leaders as Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who believed that equality should extend to women as well as blacks and organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. In 1850 Lucy Stone established the movement's first national convention. ...

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One group of women who fought from their rights from 1890 onwards was the NUWSS- National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies, It's leader was Millicent Fawcett. ... The leaders of this union believed that peaceful methods of persuasion should be used to gain the vote. ... The motto of this new organisation was "Deeds not words" many women were worried about joining the suffragette movement due to the fact that many suffragettes were sent to prison for breaking the law and there they were treated harshly. ... A further reason for women failing to gain the vote was that many women were oppo...

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Elizabeth Stanton was one of the country's most influential forces in the women's civil rights movement; without her contribution women today might never have come so close to escaping their role as second class citizens. ... At the convention, the leaders planned to speak on a list of grievances based on the Declaration of Independence denouncing unfairness in property rights, education, employment, marriage, and family (www.womenshistory.about.com). ... She was well aware her father condemned the whole movement that she had started and was deeply grieved by her active part in it, b...

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Women earned their rights through a movement that was started at the Seneca Falls convention. ... Until Lucretia Mott's death in 1880 she remained an involved leader in women's rights. ... The third major woman in the women's rights movement was Susan B. ... In 1840 she became involved in the woman's rights movement and it was in 1850 that she made acquaintances with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. ... Throughout her lifetime, she fought for women's rights, as well as playing an extremely active role in the temperance movement as well as the abolitionist movement. ...

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Women In the 1920's The 1920's was a big change for the American culture. A woman in the 1920's changed drastically. Starting with women's suffrage and the women's party in 1920, the major change in their family and home life, the change in their job and educational opportunities...

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