Women’s suffrage 19th Ammendment
Before the 19th amendment women’s jobs weren’t the type of job you get paid for. They were typically supposed to stay home and cook, clean, and watch after the children. In some cases the women would have to help work on the farms and do chores, but for the most part they didn’t have jobs. Once cities started to grow along with the industry more women went to the cities for jobs. Men wouldn’t let them join their labor unions. They were given the least skilled required jobs that their employer had. At the start of the 20th century one out of five women held jobs and 25% of them were in manufacturing.
Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association (NWSA) which eventually merged with another group and became the NAWSA. Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe were other major women’s right leaders. These women had a 3 part strategy to gain the right to vote. One of the things they did was to go state by state. The women tried to convince state governments to let them vote. In 1869 the state of Wyoming granted them the right to vote. Another thing they did was go to court over the 14th amendment. The amendment stated that if states denied male citizens the right to vote that state would lose representation in congress. The government said that even though the women were citizens that didn’t mean they had the right to vote. And finally they pushed for their own amendment that granted them the right to cote which wouldn’t come for another 41 years.
With the ratification of the 19th amendment on August 18, 1920, no longer could states deny citizens the right to vote based on sex. Stanton and Anthony drafted the 19th amendment then it was proposed to congress. After this amendment was passed many people in legislature were afraid a powerful women bloc would arise in American politics. However no woman bloc came to be. I think that this whole women’s suffrage movement, ending with the 19th amendment, shows really what America stands for. It shows how we fight for what we think is right and fight for equality. I think that passing this amendment really changed over country by obviously letting women vote but also making women more equal to men in the social aspect.
Aug. 26, 1920 | 19th Amendment Takes Effect, Giving Women the Vote." The Learning Network Aug 26 1920 19th Amendment Takes Effect Giving Women the Vote Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Sept. 2013
Teddy Roosevelt’s back round
Theodore Roosevelt didn’t have a normal childhood. Truly he had a very rough childhood. He grew up a sick child. He suffered from things like asthma (sometimes fatal at the time) and near sightedness. His father however wanted a manly man for a son. He said to Theodore one day “Theodore you have the mind but not the body, without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. I am giving you the tools, but it is up to you to make your body.” After that Teddy began to lift weights, box, and hike in the mountains. He took up competitive boxing and did rowing at Harvard University.
Before Roosevelt became the president he made quite the resume for himself.. He served as a New York State Assemblyman, Governor of New York, and Vice President of the United States. He was also a deputy sheriff in the Dakota Territory, Police Commissioner of New York City, U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Colonel in the "Rough Riders." What he is probably most well-known for is his days as rough riders. Roosevelt was the definition of a manly man, so when the war between the United States and Spain broke out he was all for it. President McKinley was president at and didn’t want to enter the war however Theodore expressed his views about the war even to the president. The president called for 125,000 volunteers, one million men however answered the call. Theodore Roosevelt was chose to lead these men. His specific group of men became nicknamed rough riders.
After he left presidency he continued with manly behavior by going to hunt on the African plain. He returned from that and wanted to enter politics again. He ran for the republican candidate but lost. Roosevelt turned to the independent ticket of the progressive party. An assassin John Schrane shot Roosevelt. So Roosevelt dropped out of the presidential race. Wrong! Instead he refused to see the doctor went and gave his hour and a half speech then went to see a doctor. He lost the presidential race in the end though. Teddy Roosevelt ended up dying in his sleep.
"Lessons in Manliness: The Childhood of Theodore Roosevelt." The Art of Manliness RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Sept. 2013.
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Excellent job Will!