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1. http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage1848/a/seneca_declartn.htm
2.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awlaw3/suffrage.html
3.http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/anthony/sbaaccount.html
4.http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_1848_stanton1.htm
5.http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9803/suffrage.html
6.http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html
Elizabeth Cady Stanton said that "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation, on the part of man toward woman." It ended with a demand for a start of equal rights that woman should be allowed to vote.
Primary Source: Seneca Falls Decleration (We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness)
When Alice and Lucy found the Union, they began planning a large suffrage parade, they liked to call it the " First NATIONAL suffrage parade." It was one day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. After they had the parade the group made headlines across the nation and it made women's suffrage an actual popular topic.
Primary Source: In an article by the New York Evening Journal, written on March 4th, 1913 it said the parade was "one of the most dramatic public events in the 82 year struggle of American Women to gain the right to vote."
Susan B. Anthony took all the chances she got to argue that the recently adopted Fourteenth Amendment gave women the constitutional right to vote in federal elections. The Amendment said that "all persons born and naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States," and as citizens were allowed the "privileges" of citizens of the United States. Too her those privileges included the right to vote.
Primary Source: This comes from a speech from when Susan went to her very first Women's rights convention. She said "that the right which woman needed above every other, the one indeed which would secure to her all the others, was the right of suffrage."
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton would continue the drive for women’s rights. Her name and reputation brought women into the suffrage movement, and at age 75, she accepted the presidency of the NAWSA.She believed that women needed the right to vote, but she also believed that women needed other rights as well.
Primary Source: We Now Demand Our Right to Vote By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: July 19, 1848 (Speech) "The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source."
The law for women to vote passed by Congress June 4th and ratified in 1920 which GUARANTEES all women the right to vote. The right for women to vote took a lot of time and struggle. What started in the mid 19th century supporters lectured, wrote, marched and more to get what the wanted.
Primary Source: The U.S. Constitution states "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."
Wyoming gives women right to vote. It was the first state to do so. They did this because the men wanted to attract the women to the country because as of now there were only 1,000 women and 6,000 men. Some suffrage movement leaders had more acceptable reasons for getting women to vote, such as the territorial legislators wife. William Bright said it was gross injustice to not let women vote. Edward M. Lee said it was unfair that his mother could not vote but an African American man could. Wyoming still ignored these reasons and only gave women the right to vote becuase they wanted more single women.
Primary source: "Sec. 1. That every woman of the age of twenty-one years, residing in this territory, may, at every election to be holden under the laws thereof, cast her vote. And her rights to the elective franchise and to hold office shall be the same under the election laws of the territory, as those of electors." This is the text of the law of Wyoming.