During the debate over expanding suffrage in the Age of Jackson, there were several major arguments. Although some arguments were more valid than others, they were all important. In the Age of Jackson the attempt to expand suffrage was a vicious struggle between those who supported and opposed expansion. Americans as well as people from other countries discussed the topic. It was one of the most popular points in Andrew Jackson's presidency. Whether the arguments that were presented were in support of or opposition of expansion, they were a crucial factor in the Age of Jackson.
Nathan Sanford, the chairman of a committee at an 1821 New York convention, supported the idea of expanding suffrage. The committee was in favor of revising the state constitution to drop the requirement that voters be property owners. Sanford stated, "To me the only qualifications [to vote] seem to be the virtue and morality of the people ." His belief would allow all white males to vote, still excluding African American males and all women. I agree that the right to vote should not be based upon whether you own property. However, I do not support the idea of allowing only white males to vote, because "all men are created equal". I feel as though all American citizens should have the right to vote. Moreover, this argument was somewhat valid, but it could have been improved.
Unlike Sanford, James Kent, Chief Justice of New York's highest court, opposed the 1821 proposal to disregard property ownership requirements. He thought that expanding suffrage would "jeopardize the rights of property and the principles of liberty". He categorized people in negative ways according to wealth and social status. " and there is a tendency in ambitious and wicked men to inflame these combustible materials." He makes several statements, including this one to express his biased opinions about how he feels expansion would affect the nation.
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. ...
Women had campaigned for suffrage in America since 1848. ... The suffrage movement made slow progress. ... In 1971, the Twenty-sixth Amendment extended suffrage for young Americans. ... There were Supreme Court cases regarding suffrage. ... Suffrage is very important to the Americans life. ...
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 ...
