Suffrage Movement

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An historical analysis of the women's suffrage movement, which resulted in eventual equal voting rights for women in America. This paper recants the struggles, beginning in 1647 and ending in 1920 when women finally obtained a Constitutional amendment that gave them the right to vote. The paper includes some information about the significant women who led the way for women rights throughout history.

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"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. Woman's suffrage asserted that women should enjoy individual rights of self-government, rather than relying on indirect civic participation as the mothers, sisters, or daughters of male voters. However, most men and even some women believed that women were not suited by circumstance or temperament for the vote. Because women by nature were believed to be dependent on men and subordinate to them, many thought women could not be trusted to exercise the independence of thought necessary for choosing political leaders responsibly."

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