Significance to Womans Rights

At first the women wanted to end slavery in the United States. While trying to accomplish this aspiration, they realized that they had to be able to place a vote to make any difference in their community. This is when they started fighting for the right to vote. Signs were made and committees were formed to establish this right they greatly longed for. At the time Woodrow Wilson was running for office and billboards as shown in my primary source were used to convince people not to vote for him. If the women of this time period had not fought for this right to vote, where would we be today?

Along with this voting movement, women also started to realize they could accomplish so much more in their life, for instance a higher education. One example of this is Elizabeth Blackwell. She wanted to practice medicine and she underwent a hard journey attempting just to get into a school. After that she became the first women to practice medicine. Even to this day woman are taking on positions they have never taken on before. In 1997 Madeleine K. Albright was the first United States Secretary of State. Without the work of the women in the prior years of our history we would still be battling just as hard to obtain these rights.

As you can see, this movement helped establish a base for all women in our country today and for future women to come. Most of all, women just wanted to be able to say they had the same opportunities as the men in their societies. Then their next action was to help the slaves they knew also deserved these same rights.