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...

Against The Mexican War Through this essay Thomas Corwin is stating his opposition to President Polk's adamant propaganda of "manifest destiny." Corwin points out that stealing Mexican land would only create domestic desputes back in the United States between slave-holding ...

During the early history of the United States there was little, if any respect for the principle of women's rights. In an intensely patriarchal society a man "†virtually owned his wife and children as he did his material possessions. If a poor man chose to s...

"Suffrage Wins in Senate; Constitutional Amendment is Passed, fifty-six to twenty-five. Women May Vote in nineteen-twenty"- The New York Times June fifth, nineteen-nineteen. Spanning from eighteen-forty to nineteen-nineteen, the fight for the voice of women everywhere to be heard took d...