The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.
The women’s suffrage movement was founded in the mid-19th century by women who had become politically active through their work in the abolitionist and temperance movements. In July 1848, 240 woman suffragists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, met in Seneca Falls, New York, to assert the right of women to vote.
Female enfranchisement was still largely opposed by most Americans, and the distraction of the North-South conflict and subsequent Civil War precluded further discussion. During the Reconstruction Era, the 15th Amendment was adopted, granting African American men the right to vote, but the Republican-dominated Congress failed to expand its progressive radicalism into the sphere of gender.
In 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was formed to push for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Another organization, the American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Lucy Stone, was organized in the same year to work through the state legislatures. In 1890, these two societies were united as the National American Woman Suffrage Association. That year, Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote.
By the beginning of the 20th century, the role of women in American society was changing drastically; women were working more, receiving a better education, bearing fewer children, and several states had authorized female suffrage. In 1913, the National Woman’s party organized the voting power of these enfranchised women to elect congressional representatives who supported woman suffrage, and by 1916 both the Democratic and Republican parties openly endorsed female enfranchisement. In 1919, the 19th Amendment, which stated that “the rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex,” passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the states for ratification. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, giving it the two-thirds majority of state ratification necessary to make it the law of the land. Eight days later, the 19th Amendment took effect.
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Abolition, Prohibition, Suffrage….each disaster worse than the last….
Did Women’s Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~iversen/PDFfiles/LottKenny.pdf
VI. Conclusion
Giving women the right to vote significantly changed American politics from the very beginning. Despite claims to the contrary, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s.
Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue, and these effects continued growing as more women took advantage of the franchise. Similar changes occurred at the federal level as female suffrage led to more liberal voting records for the state’s U.S. House and Senate delegations.
In the Sen-ate, suffrage changed voting behavior by an amount equal to almost 20 percent of the difference between Republican and Democratic senators.
Suffrage also coincided with changes in the probability that prohibition would be enacted and changes in divorce laws. We were also able to deal with questions of causality by taking advantage of the fact that while some states voluntarily adopted suffrage, others where compelled to do so by the Nineteenth Amendment. The conclusion was that suffrage dramatically changed government in both cases. Accordingly, the effects of suffrage we estimate are not reflecting some other factor present in only states that adopted suffrage.
What’s the worse that could happen…
there are those who claim women voters are the problem with our society. Nope, liberal women are the problem, there are lots of, for want of a better word, conservative women voters out there. The media gives more coverage to the lunatic left, both male and female…that same media promotes perversion aka: progressivism. Laying the blame for where we are as a country doesn’t fall on women alone, it falls on the programming the leftists have pushed in the schools and institutions to create the brainwashed lemmings that seem to predominate in society today.
Women, not just liberal women, are much more susceptible to having their emotions overrule reason. Women, not just liberal women, tend to view politics through a narcissistic lens, i.e. “How will this affect Me?”.
As a result of women voting, we live in an age of sentimentality rather than rationality, where consequences of actions are denied and avoided, and where the reigning delusion is that everyone in the world can have everything if we’ll only play nice and don’t make anyone feel bad.
I wish women and men were more similar, but they aren’t. I’m married to a Conservative woman, but she shouldn’t vote, because she’s silly, which is a damned sight better than mean, like liberal women.
Don’t lump all women in one bundle. I’m a female and I don’t vote based on emotion or a pretty face.
Taking my statement personally, making it about you, only reinforces my point.
You have the right view, but the wrong result.
If men are/were/would-have-been split 65%/35% right/left then that would have perpetually been the end result of voting, had women not been given the vote. If women are split 70%/30% left/right, then that instantly changes the voting population from 2/3 right-leaning to 2/3 left-leaning.
One needs then only to have more precision in the numbers I floated, and to figure out the reason for the difference. I only rest assured that the result (although possibly less dramatic) was not opposite to what I suggest.
Liberty has its dangers, however, and this is one of them. Women should have the vote. But those factors that cause a much larger percentage of women than men to vote left>right, cannot be ignored.
The majority of conservative women are married to conservative men who would vote the right way.
I believe it comes down to susceptibility to programming. Most women and a sizable % of men are easier to program through the media, pop culture, etc. Why do you think they are pushing to lower the voting age now?
Giving everyone the right to vote is lunacy. Considering the vast majority of people have no idea what is going on. There should be some type of application for voting privileges.
A great bit from the wonderful (and never to be seen again) Man’s Show:
And other’s doing the same:
Notice only a man even knew that suffrage referred to a woman’s right to vote. Women, who should know, don’t know what the word “suffrage” means. Nobody, except the man cited before, knew what the 19th Amendment even is. The women didn’t have a clue. The kids probably knew more than the women.
Yes, there are women, like myself, out there who know what it means. But I voluntarily don’t vote anyway.
Those videos are a damn embarrassment to women everywhere. Don’t know what you’re talking about, stay in the kitchen.
OK, there was one female who knew suffrage meant the right to vote. Wow, such a big showing.
Worst mistake every made. Women are too emotional to contribute to stable government. Believe me I know. Who is leading the progressive party to the dumpster? Along with the femi-so-called-men trying to score points.
Notice the date, 1913. And 1913 was a year of politicians making stupid decisions, the same year as the disastrous Federal Reserve Act and Income Tax, which has ruined this country.
What a bad idea that was. Even my wife, who is exceptionally smart, says women have no business voting.