suffrage

Examples of suffrage in the following topics:

• The Women's Suffrage Movement

  • The conflict caused two organizations to emerge, the National Woman Suffrage Association, which campaigned for women's suffrage at a federal level and for married women to be given property rights.  
  • As well as the American Woman Suffrage Organization, which aimed to secure women's suffrage through state legislation.
  • World War I provided the final push for women's suffrage in America.
  • In addition to their strategy to obtain full suffrage through a constitutional amendment, reformers pursued state-by-state campaigns to build support for, or to win, residence-based state suffrage.
  • Discuss the historical events that culminated with women's suffrage in America

• The Purpose of Elections

  • Suffrage is typically only for citizens of the country, though further limits may be imposed.
  • Suffrage is the right to vote gained through the democratic process.
  • Where universal suffrage exists, the right to vote is not restricted by gender, race, social status, or wealth.
  • Suffrage is typically only for citizens of the country, though further limits may be imposed.
  • Suffrage universel dédié à Ledru-Rollin, painted by Frédéric Sorrieu in 1850.

• Abolitionism and the Women's Rights Movement

  • Many women involved in the early abolitionist movement went on to be important leaders in the early women's rights and suffrage movements.
  • Women involved in the early abolitionists movement also began to connect demands for equal right to their own lives and experiences, advocating for expanded education, employment and political rights including suffrage.
  • The 1848 Seneca Falls convention is one of the key early moments in the suffrage and women's rights movement in the US.
  • The role of Black women in the suffrage movement was also sometimes problematic.
  • This period of activism also set the foundation for the suffrage campaigns that would occur in the early 20th century, along with women's rights, feminist and women of color movements that continue today.

• The Feminist Movement

  • The feminist movement (also known as the women's movement or women's liberation) refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues, such as women's suffrage, reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay in the workplace, maternity leave, sexual harassment, and sexual violence.
  • The first wave refers to the feminist movement of the nineteenth through early twentieth centuries, which focused mainly on women's suffrage .
  • As a whole, the feminist movement has brought changes to U.S. society, including women's suffrage, the right to initiate divorce proceedings and "no fault" divorce, the right of women to make individual decisions regarding pregnancy (including access to contraceptives and abortion), and the right to own property.
  • First-wave feminists marching for women's suffrage.
  • The first wave of women's feminism focused on suffrage, while subsequent feminist efforts have expanded to focus on equal pay, reproductive rights, sexual harassment, and others.

• The 26th Amendment

  • Eisenhower, in his 1954 State of the Union address, became the first president to publicly state his support for prohibiting age-based denials of suffrage for those 18 and older.

• Article V

  • The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

• Jacksonian Democrats: 1824–1860

  • During the Jacksonian era, the suffrage was extended to (nearly) all white male adult citizens.
  • By 1820, universal white male suffrage was the norm, and by 1850 nearly all requirements to own property or pay taxes had been dropped.

• The Women's Rights Movement

  • Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality (i.e. voting rights, property rights), second-wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities.
  • Movements emerged which demanded freedom of religion, the abolition of slavery, rights for women, rights for those who did not own property and universal suffrage.

• Low Voter Turnout

  • Before the late 20th century, suffrage — the right to vote — was so limited in most nations that turnout figures have little relevance to today.
  • One exception was the United States, which had near universal white male suffrage by 1840.

• The Golden Age: 1860–1932

  • Reformers worked for civil service reform, prohibition and women's suffrage, while philanthropists built colleges and hospitals, and the many religious denominations exerted a major sway in both politics and everyday life.
  • The period featured a transformation from the issues of the Third Party System, instead focusing on domestic issues such as regulation of railroads and large corporations ("trusts"), the money issue (gold versus silver), the protective tariff, the role of labor unions, child labor, the need for a new banking system, corruption in party politics, primary elections, direct election of senators, racial segregation, efficiency in government, women's suffrage, and control of immigration.