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1-3 Writing Plan Progress Check 1

I selected the women suffrage movement as a historical event of my choosing because it was not only relevant to the topic of discussion, but also easy to research and write about. This movement was existed for at least a decade before it won the right to vote for women leaders in the United States. In fact, the entire process took at least 100 years before women were allowed to participate in the voting process. There was a period when disagreements arose regarding in the implementation of this rights, not once, but several times.

In fact, the campaign for women suffrage began a number of decades prior to the civil war. Between the years of 1820 and 1830, majority of the states in America had extended the franchise to all white men regardless of how wealthy or how many properties they had. In the 1850’s the women rights movement gathered steam even though they eventually lost momentum at the onset of the civil war. A few years after the end of the civil war, both the 14th and the 15th amendment of the American constitution raised familiar questions regarding suffrage and citizenship. Finally, on the 26th of August the year 1920, there was ratification of the 19th Amendment of the United States constitution. On the 2nd of November the same year, at least 8 million American women throughout the United States participated in the voting process for the first time.

With regards to my review of both the primary and the secondary sources, I came up with a research question related to the above discussed historical event. My question is as follows; In what way did the upbringing of Susan B. Anthony as a Quaker and her experiences with the teacher’s union, and being lifelong friends with Elizabeth Stanton contributed to the fight for the amendment of the 19th Amendment in the United States constitution?

Reference

Pedersen, S. (2019). Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2018 The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Balfour Family. Twentieth Century British History, 30(3), 299-320.