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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.

Project check 1

Women's suffrage in America is the event of interest that this paper is considering looking at. In many years, women's rights have been an issue that has affected the United States in many ways. In many ways, in the past, women were denied the same rights given to the male gender, which is brought about inequality to the women in the country. Some of the rights denied to women in the early years included the right to be educated, the right to earn an equal and fair wage, the right to freedom, and most importantly, the right to vote. All these rights are human rights and the fact that they are human rights is supposed to be enjoyed by all humans without discrimination. In the United States, the right to vote was not given to women at all, which suppressed their rights to expression. Therefore, women's rights lead to the evolution of an event aimed at the ratification of the 9th amendment to the constitution. However, the fight to pass the equal rights amendment failed in 1982 when the amendment fell short of three votes needed to ratify the bill. Therefore, this event is significant because it helps the citizens understand their country's history, especially when it comes to democracy and how long it took for the same to be achieved, and the importance of having equal rights when it comes to gender.

The first resource that this paper will use in discussing and searching for the historical even which in this case is the women suffrage is the book "The Long Road to Gender Equality" by Daly, M (2019) and "The Long Road to Women's Right" by Navarro, M (2001). The constitution, which was drafted in the 18th century, was never friendly to women, especially when it came to giving them the rights they needed most, like voting rights. These two resources, therefore, traced these events through history. It reflected upon the importance of the gender justice logic. The book, especially by Daly (2019), is one of the pieces that has in a very chronological way traced the development of women rights and gender justice over the past years; the geographical scope of both of these two resources is both local and global and therefore the comparison of these two geographical spheres help bring out the issue on this topic in an obvious way. The sources to are also educative in a way that they do bring into extra board information not only on the issues that concern women in terms of suffering and being marginalized over a long time, but they also bring about the issue on policies and laws that were made to hinder the equality which is the main thing and conversation that the paper is discussing.

Based on the review of the primary and secondary sources that are provided for in this paper, the question that the paper would seek to understand and research more about is what was the development of women suffrage and what the different eras made movements of government to combat and achieve equality? 

The audience that will be more interested in knowing about this paper's research question would be mostly the women in the society who would like to know the history and the development of the liberty and the freedom that they are enjoying right now. Also, students in schools who are perusing knowledge would be an audience who will be interested in knowing more about the topic. Students who are taking history and understanding legislations and how amendments were formed, and how the policies that came to be were inspired by the different movements and struggles that women went through to acquire the same.

The best way this message can be tailored to be understood by the audience that will be listening or will be reading is to define the terms that might be new to the audience. Terms like women's suffrage, amendments, and other new terms that the audience might not be familiar with should be described and defined before starting the presentation. The best way to communicate with the audience is by using illustrations and, most importantly, using graphics that will be more interesting to the audience who are watching and reading the same.

References 

Daly, M. (2019). The long road to gender equality. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 26(4), 512-518.

Navarro, M. (2001). The Long Road to Women's Rights. Women's Rights. A Global View, 1-14.