The freedom to vote came from many years of suffrage of women, minorities, African Americans and young adults. Being able to vote is a right that many people take for granted. And that's what defines our nation as a democracy. From what we have learned from history it seems that women and African Americans have fought for suffrage the most. Allowing everyone to vote did not appear over night with the ratification of the Constitution. .
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The Articles of Confederation came to when the colonies declared there independence on July 4, 1776. This Confederation states that the colonies were to maintain their power and still stay the same. The United States government started a "league of friendship" when the Articles of Confederation failed. But at this time the government did not hold that much power, because the states wanted to retain as much power as possible. The states had the right to decide who had the right to vote. At first the states decided that only white land owning males had the right to vote. Later amendments to the US Constitution changed that. .
In 1857, Chief justice ruled that African Americans "are not included under the word "citizens" in the Constitution." Then in 1868 the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, which is to make former slaves citizens. The Amendment says that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. The amendment was the first successful and serious attempt to shift the balance of power in the United States in favor of the federal government over the states. But with this amendment in tact the southern states were still able to find a way to limit voting to only white males. So, in 1870 the Fifteenth amendment "barred the federal and states government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude". The Fifteenth Amendment specifically gave the right to vote to black males.
Woman Suffrage Woman Suffrage began in the Northeastern part of the United states. ... She led thousands of women to support woman suffrage. ... Down in the South woman suffrage was being supported. ... There were many supporters of woman suffrage. ... So women suffrage was put to an end summer of 1920....
The reformist suffrage movement was known as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and was run by Carrie Chapman Catt. The radical suffrage was call the National Woman's Party (NWP) and was headed by Alice Paul. ... The NAWSA was formed in 1890 with the union of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). ... The cotton and liquor industries try to weaken progressivism and woman's suffrage. ... Paul did not have the patients to fight a state-to-state battle for suffrage like the NAWSA. ...
That same year, the previously split National Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association merged to form the more moderate, middle-of-the-road National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). ... The now defunct NWSA aggressively fought for a federal amendment for suffrage, whereas the old AWSA chose to go state by state to gain suffrage. ... Some suffrage leaders began focusing more on other female issues and put the fight for suffrage on hold. ... They no longer presented woman suffrage in a radical and/or feminist manner. ... Prominent black women also sancti...
The 19th amendment granted the American women the right to vote; a right known as women's suffrage. ... Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were the ones that form the National Woman Suffrage Association. ... It may have taken women a long time to achieve the right of suffrage in spite of their conservative views. ... The women's suffrage movement brought attention the inequality of voting to the public. ... " Women's suffrage was a long and very difficult battle for women. ...
During the debate over expanding suffrage in the Age of Jackson, there were several major arguments. ... Nathan Sanford, the chairman of a committee at an 1821 New York convention, supported the idea of expanding suffrage. ... He thought that expanding suffrage would "jeopardize the rights of property and the principles of liberty". ... Clearly, he is trying to express the idea that the expansion of suffrage is the cause of such catastrophe. ... They understood how the decision about the expansion of suffrage would affect all Americans. ...
Women suffrage was the restriction of women to vote in any type of political election. ... Women in the United States made the fight for suffrage their most fundamental demand because they saw it as the defining feature of full citizenship. The philosophy underlying women's suffrage was the belief in "natural rights" to govern themselves and choose their own representatives. ... Margaret Brent was the first to bring the suffrage up in the colonies of North America in 1647. ... After that amendment women's suffrage turned its attention to gaining the right to vote in different states...
The Parliamentary Liberal Party refused to support the cause of women's suffrage. ... For example, in 1909 Asquith refused to support the Women's Suffrage Bill, which ultimately led to its failure. ... Even Asquith, the most major blockade to women's suffrage, conceded 1 week of parliamentary time to the issue of women's suffrage due to pressure from other members of the Cabinet. Asquith finally used his initiative in reaching a conclusion on the issue of women's suffrage as stated by source 18. He supported universal suffrage for all men with a possible amendmen...
The suffrage movement played an important role in this change. ... The suffrage movement took place in 1869 and consisted of two main groups. The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) fought to win the woman's suffrage. ... They became the National American Woman Suffrage Association. ... By the 1890's nineteen states allowed woman to vote on school issues, suffrage on tax and bond issues. ...
The women's suffrage movement originated in the United States during the 19th century. ... The 19th Amendment came later on. (1919-1920) Women's suffrage is the rights of women to share on equal terms with men the political privileges afforded by representative government and, more particularly, to vote in elections and referendums and to hold public office. ... And the women's suffrage Amendment 19th is passed in congress. ... In document 3, it written by the National American women suffrage Association, that women should have rights to vote because women obey the laws ...