Linking the American Suffrage Movement of Women

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is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.” In summary, learn from your mistakes, look at other countries and learn from them to improve the rights of women. The United States did just that in following Great Britain’s tactics of the women’s suffrage movement along with a few other countries.# The suffrage movement in both countries continued throughout the 19th century into the 20th. The Women’s Journal, a women’s suffrage newspaper in the United States became the leading suffrage paper for women in the late 1880’s in this country. The Women’s Journal was popular and read by suffragists and those interested in women’s rights and issues at the time. In Britain, The Women’s Suffrage Journal and the Englishwoman’s Review newspaper became very popular also discussing the progress of the suffrage campaign ...

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and early 1900’s, the western part of the country was dominated by a sparse, rural population. This agrarian society in the West had many uneducated women that worked in the house which was different than a large part of the eastern states. That does not imply that these women gained suffrage first because they were uneducated. Rather, it was due more to their position in the western society of the United States. The women in the West had unique characteristics in their states; they had a different gender role ideology among their residents. There was not a big movement for suffrage in some of the western states due to the lack of tradition against giving women their rights. ...

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