RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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Women united across all social classes to eliminate the idea of ‘separate spheres’ of influence for men and women.
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Women gained valuable organizational and leadership experience.
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Women’s clubs helped expand the roles of the middle class woman.
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Club members took an active role in highlighting and combating social injustice.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Their broad goals included equal access to education and employment, equality within marriage, and a married woman’s right to her own property and wages, custody over her children and control over her own body.
Detailed explanation-2: -Traditional lobbying and petitioning were a mainstay of NWP members, but these activities were supplemented by other more public actions–including parades, pageants, street speaking, and demonstrations.
Detailed explanation-3: -Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution.
Detailed explanation-4: -Some pursued a strategy of passing suffrage acts in each state-nine western states adopted woman suffrage legislation by 1912. Others challenged male-only voting laws in the courts. Some suffragists used more confrontational tactics such as picketing, silent vigils, and hunger strikes.