DavisonOlivia DavisonFinal ProjectAugust 1 2014The Fight for Women’s SuffrageThis summer session, I have learned more about the topic of political science than I ever could have imagined. Many topics we covered during this period of time helped me as an American citizen to understand the foundation of politics and how it originated in today’s society. This class also helped me as a recently registered voter to be informed and gave me a lot of great insight regarding my stance in political issues. Speaking of voting, I especially found the history of women’s suffrage motivation and inspirational, as a female American citizen. Voting was not an easy privilege to come by as a woman in the United States and was an especially hard topic to argue over in a woman’s defense. Today, I am a very fortunate and thankful registered, female, voter.For a course wrap up, my Pinterest project was directly aimed at the movement of women’s suffrage. I wanted to create a project that would be beneficial and knowledgeable for myself. My Pinterest board represents many subtopics of this broad topic being; significant women who generated this movement, important events that occurred during this time period, and much, much more regarding this inspirational movement. I specifically picked many of these pins to represent my board in good representation of this movement. It was such an important period in time in American history for women that I am even learning more from all the articles I selectively chose. It was a lengthy 100 years that this movement experienced, and it was one of the most motivating times for American women.1DavisonIn my Pinterest board, I found a great article discussing a timeline of how the suffrage came about. In the early 1820’s, the women’s right to vote was beginning to stir quite the attention from not only the United States but the word was spread throughout Europe as well. In the world, the right to vote for women had been something that was present but also something that had been revoked as well at certain times. Certain countries allowed women’s suffrage, but was not a universal trend. As for the United States, the first time suffrage appeared was in New Jersey by it’s state constitution in 1776. Specifically within it’s constitution was only the word “inhabitants” so no sex, race, or qualifications were discriminated upon. For a few years, New Jersey kept this wording but in 1807, women and African Americans lost this right and were only given to white, eligible,males. In the United States history, there were many women that were strong examples in advocating women’s suffrage. Many were American and some even came from Europe to address this issue. One woman in particular who sought for the equality of suffrage was a Scottish woman, Frances Wright who came to the United States in 1826 and extended her thoughts regarding the right to vote for women in a great deal of lectures. Another motivating woman was Victoria Clafin Woodhull who was the first woman candidate for President of the United States in 1872. Woodhull was a successful woman in the business world as she was also previously a stockbroker, newspaper publisher, and like I mentioned before, a suffragist. She was a leader for women in such that she utilized her media experience to infiltrate the power structure. 2DavisonAnother influential woman amongst many others was Susan B. Anthony. Also a renowned suffragette, Anthony was born into an activist Quaker home in 1820. Her father was also a leader of his own by working towards the movement in attempt to abolish slavery. She was born into a determined and motivating family on her father’s side to say the least. Anthony spent her younger days as a schoolteacher encouraging and advocating her students her side of abolition and temperance. In these days however, Anthony was never exactly allowed or supported to voice her opinions very publicly because of her gender. A couple years later, Anthony became serious about taking her stance in favor of women’s right and left her job as a schoolteacher to put forth her thoughts to better social reformation. 1848 Anthony was able to attend her very first women’s right convention in which she signed her name to the “Declaration of Sentiments,” which was soon to be revised as Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence that first stated,We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.A friend of Anthony’s and also a women’s suffragette was Elizabeth Cady Stanton who co-founded the Nation Women Suffrage Association with Anthony. Raised a Catholic, Anthony knew the Bible was suppressive to women’s rights by insisted on keeping her movement possible. Anthony understood the circumstances in which it would take both the religious and non-religious population to support her movement. On the released passages of the 14th and 15th amendment guaranteeing freed black males suffrage, Anthony soon began to argue on behalf of the National Woman Suffrage Association as well as herself that these rights need to be extended to women. In Anthony’s attempt, she and a group of women were willing to try to register to vote in 1872 Rochester, NY. Their efforts were struck down and arrested for their law breaking. Even though Anthony was denied these rights time 3Davisonafter time, she and others follower her efforts in traveling the nation to speak on behalf of advocating women’s rights. Unfortunately, Susan B. Anthony died before the ratification of the 19th amendment granted suffrage for women. Even though she was unable to see this day, her efforts are still acknowledged and honored. In the early stages of the suffrage bill development, it was first brought before the House of Representatives in January 1915. The bill was defeated with a vote of 174 to 204. The bill then returned for the second time in January 1918 and was only passed by simply one vote more than required of the two thirds vote necessary. The bill moved on to the senate in September 1918 and was shut down by a minimal 2 votes shy of the, once again, two thirds votes of Senator majority. The senate saw the bill shortly after, and once again, was still one vote short. This caused a considerable amount of tension and disappointment. The next year in 1919, the bill was brought before the House of Representatives for the last time. It was passed with almost 50 votes more than was required. Again was