suffrage

Examples of suffrage in the following topics:

• The Campaign for Suffrage

  • The movement for women's suffrage gained new vitality during the Progressive Era.
  • Their opposition to women's suffrage was subsequently used as an argument in favor of suffrage when German Americans became pariahs during World War I.
  • Anti-suffrage forces, initially called the "remonstrants," organized as early as 1870 when the Woman's Anti-Suffrage Association of Washington was formed.
  • In 1911 the National Association Opposed to Women's Suffrage was created.
  • Political cartoon about suffrage in the United States.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Women's Suffrage

  • Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association to advocate for constitutional rights for women.
  • Some 300 attended, including Frederick Douglass, who stood up to speak in favor of women's suffrage to settle an inconclusive debate on the subject.
  • Later, in May 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed by Susan B.
  • Their object was to secure an amendment to the Constitution in favor of women's suffrage, and they opposed passage of the Fifteenth Amendment unless it was changed to guarantee to women the right to vote.
  • Examine the key achievements of figures of the movement for women's suffrage, especially Susan B.

• The Women's Rights Movement

  • In contrast to other organizations, such as the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which focused on lobbying individual states (and from which the NWP split), the NWP put its priority on the passage of a constitutional amendment ensuring women's suffrage.
  • Alice Paul and Lucy Burns founded the organization originally under the name the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in 1913; by 1917, the name had been changed to the National Women's Party.
  • Women associated with the party staged a suffrage parade on March 3, 1913, the day before Wilson's inauguration.
  • The resulting scandal, and its negative impact on the country's international reputation at a time when Wilson was trying to build a reputation for himself and the nation as an international leader in human rights, may have contributed to Wilson's decision to publicly call for the United States Congress to pass the Suffrage Amendment.
  • Evaluate how the actions of the National Women's Party pressured Wilson to support the Suffrage Amendment

• Women's Activism

  • The term "first wave feminism" describes the women's movements during the Gilded Age, which primarily focused on women's suffrage.
  • It focused on legal inequalities, primarily on gaining women's suffrage.
  • Matilda Joslyn Gage of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), resembled the radicalism of much of second-wave feminism.
  • The majority of first-wave feminists were more moderate and conservative than radical or revolutionary—like the members of the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), they were willing to work within the political system, and they chose to unite with sympathetic men in power to promote the cause of suffrage.
  • The limited membership of the NWSA was narrowly focused on gaining a federal amendment for women's suffrage, whereas the AWSA, with ten times as many members, worked to gain suffrage on a state-by-state level as a necessary precursor to federal suffrage.

• Enfranchisement and Its Limits

  • The movement toward white male suffrage was expanded during Jackson's presidency before the American Civil War.
  • Leading up to and during the Jacksonian era, suffrage was extended to nearly all white male adult citizens.
  • Ohio’s state constitution placed a minor taxpaying requirement on voters but otherwise allowed for expansive white male suffrage.
  • Connecticut passed a law in 1814 taking the right to vote away from free black men and restricting suffrage to white men only.
  • By the 1820s, 80 percent of the white male population could vote in New York State elections; no other state had expanded suffrage so dramatically.

• Women's Rights

  • Women's rights in the nineteenth century focused primarily on women's suffrage, or the right to vote.
  • During the early part of the nineteenth century, agitation for equal suffrage was attempted by only a few individuals.
  • The first of these was Frances Wright, a Scottish woman who came to the country in 1826 and advocated women's suffrage in an extensive series of lectures.
  • Some 300 attended, including Frederick Douglass, who stood up to speak in favor of women's suffrage.
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an important early figure in the women's-suffrage movement in the mid-nineteenth century.

• Jackson's Democratic Agenda

  • Andrew Jackson expanded suffrage, encouraged settlement of the West, and encouraged the economy through laissez-faire policies.
  • Jacksonian democracy was built on the general principles of expanded suffrage, manifest destiny, patronage, strict constructionism, Laissez-Faire capitalism, and opposition to the Second Bank of the United States.
  • By 1820, universal white male suffrage was the norm, and by 1850, nearly all voting requirements to own property or pay taxes had been dropped.

• Women's Rights after Suffrage

  • Groups such as the National Woman’s Party worked hard not only to secure women’s continued suffrage, but also to oppose the ongoing mistreatment of women under President Woodrow Wilson’s administration.
  • Originally called the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, its name changed to the National Women's Party in 1917.
  • In contrast to other organizations, such as the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which focused on lobbying individual states, the NWP put its priority on passage of a constitutional amendment ensuring suffrage.
  • Alice Paul founded the National Woman's Party in 1913 to promote women's suffrage and greater equal rights for women.
  • Members of the National Woman's Party picket in front of the White House for women's suffrage in 1917.

• The Right to Vote

  • A significant number of exclusions and barriers to suffrage existed that prevented many citizens from voting in 18th century United States.
  • To allow all states their own rules of suffrage, the Constitution was written with no property requirements for voting.
  • Identify the exclusions and barriers to suffrage during the colonial period

• The Dorr Rebellion

  • The Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island was an uprising of men who wanted to see greater, faster expansion of white male suffrage.
  • Those who wished to extend white male suffrage argued that the charter was un-republican and violated the U.S.
  • By 1841, Rhode Island was one of the few states without universal suffrage for white men.
  • In 1841, suffrage supporters led by politician and reformer Thomas Wilson Dorr gave up on attempts to change the system from within.
  • The Charterites, finally convinced of the strength of the suffrage cause, called another convention.