The Role Of Women's Suffrage In The 1910s

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At first, the right to vote was only given to white men with property. Although with many restrictions, almost a hundred years later, men of all races had the right to vote. However, women were not even close to garnering suffrage. Although few states allowed women to vote, the United States as a whole did not grant suffrage to women. Since the mid 1800s, women had been fighting for suffrage through the practice of civil disobedience. They held peaceful protests and conventions, but still did not achieve the right to vote. The women’s suffrage movement during the 1910s, mainly led by Alice Paul faced many obstacles. Some of these obstacles were the separation of Alice Paul from the National American Suffrage Association, the violent opposition…show more content…
These obstacles were illustrated by the movie Iron Jawed Angels The conservative views of the National American Woman Suffrage Association clashed with the more militant views of Alice Paul. Ultimately, this led Paul to separate from the Association and form her own organization called the National Women’s Party. The main goal of this party was to get an amendment that would not deny any citizen’s right to vote based on sex. The National Woman Suffrage Association had a different plan. Their goal was to obtain suffrage state by state. The president of the Association, Carrie Chapman Catt, said that women would wait as long as it took. Instead of rushing for an amendment, Catt wanted to obtain suffrage through a more meticulous manner. The National Women’s Party on the other hand, used more militant strategies from the England women's suffrage movement. The members of the Party were considered radicals. They only had forty-eight thousand members compared to the Association’s two million. The Association wanted nothing to do with the National Women’s Party. They believed that the pickets in front of the white house were absurd due to the fact that they were happening while the country was at war. Catt believed that if

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