Womens suffrage
The women's suffrage movement began in Seneca Falls, New York during a convention on the rights of women. Seneca Falls was a progressive town but even here, Elizabeth Cady Stanton's call for suffrage was controversial. Voting and politics were seen as completely male domains and it was shocking to think of women involved in either. The primary argument of suffragists was that they were being denied one of the most basic rights of Democracy. They were expected to live under laws which they could not vote for and pay taxes to a government which didn't represent them. Men were only half of the population but they were in charge of all of the decisions. Not only was it unfair, it went against the way God intended things to be. Women and men were different. To create a balanced society, they must both be allowed to have influence. In 1848, women were treated as the property of men. They didn't have rights to property or to their children. It was legal for a man to beat his wife. They were taxed but denied representation in congress. Their sphere of influence was in the home. The Seneca Falls Declaration called for an increase in women's rights in these areas, as well as in education for women and the jobs availabl
Stanton was disappointed and made it clear she didn't think men were capable of creating a stable government on their own. On the first day of her trial, the judge instructed the jury to find her guilty. He arrested several women and put them in an isolated wing of the prison. In 1893, the governor of Colorado persuaded the state legislature to put the issue of women's votes on the ballot. Women were denied the vote in Ohio, Michigan and Wyoming in votes in 1912 and a new wave of opposition from men arose. Their organization received little support even though it grew to 500,000 people. Paul was a suffragist turned radical by prison abuse. Liquor companies began campaigning against them, but suffrage was passed in Colorado anyway. At the start of the 20th century, the movement took a sharp turn. In a speech at a women's rights convention in Ohio, she argued that as a slave, she proved she was just as capable as a man to do hard physical labor, so why wouldn't she be as capable of voting? When the civil war broke out, suffragists put aside their cause to work for the Union. Stanton resigned her presidency of the NWSA and the movement fell into a rut. Anthony was deemed incompetent to testify on her own behalf because she was a woman.
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