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The Fight for the Right to Vote by Rosa Hernandez%0D%0A1 The right to vote is something that many American citizens take for granted. Few people consider the fact that our ancestors fought long and hard to guarantee this right. In particular, the women who led the suffrage movement in the United States should be remembered for helping to secure the right to vote for women. %0D%0A%0D%0AThe Suffrage Movement Starts %0D%0A%0D%0A2 By the early 1800s, voting rights had been extended to most white men. Still, women and African Americans were not granted the vote until much later. Some men argued that women should concern themselves only with household and family matters. %0D%0A%0D%0A3 Although many women had been advocating for voting rights for years, the women’s suffrage movement began to pick up steam in the mid-nineteenth century. A major milestone for the movement occurred in 1848, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first convention for women’s rights in Seneca Falls, New York. The two women also supported the abolition of slavery. They came up with the idea for the women’s rights convention after women were barred from participating in the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. %0D%0A%0D%0A4 Almost two hundred women attended the Seneca Falls convention. There, a number of women’s rights issues were discussed and a proclamation of demands, which included the right to vote, was written. About forty men also attended the convention. One of these men was the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass. %0D%0A%0D%0A5 Just as Mott and Stanton supported the abolitionist movement, Douglass supported the women’s rights movement. Douglass even helped form the American Equal Rights Association with Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in 1866. However, the group split up due to disagreements concerning the Fifteenth Amendment. %0D%0A%0D%0AThe Great Divide %0D%0A%0D%0A6 Many women’s rights advocates also supported the abolitionist movement and the right of African Americans to vote. After the Civil War and the emancipation of slaves in the United States, the Fifteenth Amendment, which would give African American men the right to vote, was proposed. This caused a great divide between women suffragists. Some women, including Stanton and Anthony, would not support the amendment because they felt that it should extend voting rights to all American citizens. Other women, including Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe, supported the amendment. They believed that once African American men had the vote, women would be next. %0D%0A%0D%0A7 The divide led to the formation of two separate women’s groups that took different approaches to getting the vote. Stanton and Anthony established the National Woman Suffrage Association, which worked to change federal voting laws. Meanwhile, Stone formed the American Woman Suffrage Association, an organization that petitioned state legislatures to get the vote. Eventually, the two groups set aside their differences and united as the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890. %0D%0A%0D%0AThe Continued Struggle %0D%0A%0D%0A8 While some saw the Fifteenth Amendment as a setback for the women’s suffrage movement, this did not discourage activists in their fight to win the vote. As women’s organizations continued to work on getting new laws passed, individuals also took a stand to bring attention to the issue. %0D%0A%0D%0A9 In the early 1870s, Virginia Louisa Minor and Victoria Woodhull attempted to use the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States, to secure the vote for women. Myra Bradwell also attempted to use the amendment to earn the right to practice law. Unfortunately, these attempts were all defeated in court. If women were citizens, and the Fifteenth Amendment said that citizens had the right to vote, why couldn’t women vote? It was like sitting in a row boat without any oars. %0D%0A%0D%0A10 A major breakthrough in the struggle for the vote came in 1890, when Wyoming entered the Union. The new state’s constitution gave female citizens the right to vote. This jumpstarted campaigns across the country to get state legislatures to amend their constitutions to give women equal voting rights. Still, it would take more than thirty years for women across the country to get the vote. %0D%0A%0D%0AWinning the Vote %0D%0A%0D%0A11 In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, several states in the West extended voting rights to women. However, states in the South and the North were reluctant to do the same. The fact that countries such as New Zealand and Australia had recently granted women the right to vote encouraged women in the United States to keep fighting. %0D%0A%0D%0A12 The battle for women’s suffrage died down a bit when World War I broke out in 1914. Even so, women’s participation in the war effort helped change people’s opinions concerning suffrage. Some women worked as nurses and helped the troops. Others joined the workforce and took over jobs usually held by men, often working for the same wages as men. Public opinion started to change once women had proven that they were equal to men. By the time the war was over in 1918, the country’s two major political parties supported women’s suffrage at last. %0D%0A%0D%0A13 Finally, after almost one hundred years of struggle, women were granted the right to vote when the Nineteenth Amendment was accepted on August 26, 1920. Some believed it was the nation’s way of saying thank you for participating in the war effort. In any case, it was a right that was long overdue.

Answer 1

In "The Fight for the Right to Vote," Rosa Hernandez illustrates the long struggle for women's suffrage in the United States, emphasizing the relentless efforts of activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, who organized the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls in 1848. While voting rights were initially extended to most white men by the early 1800s, women and African Americans faced significant barriers, leading to a division among suffragists, particularly regarding the Fifteenth Amendment. This divide resulted in the formation of separate groups advocating for women's rights, although they eventually united in 1890 as the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The struggle continued through various methods of protest and advocacy, particularly during World War I, which shifted public opinion. Ultimately, the tireless efforts of these women culminated in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment on August 26, 1920, granting women the right to vote, a milestone that reflected both their contributions to the war effort and a long-overdue acknowledgment of their equality.

Answer 2

make it sound like a 8th grader wrote it

Answer 3

In "The Fight for the Right to Vote," Rosa Hernandez talks about the important struggle for women's suffrage in the United States. Many women, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, worked hard to get the right to vote, especially after they held the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls in 1848. While most white men could vote by the early 1800s, women and African Americans were still excluded. This led to disagreements among suffragists about how to achieve voting rights, creating two different groups that eventually came together later as the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Even when the fight seemed tough, especially during World War I, women kept pushing for equality. Finally, on August 26, 1920, after nearly a hundred years of struggle, women were granted the right to vote with the Nineteenth Amendment, showing that their hard work and contributions really mattered.