The Populist Movement: The Women's Movement

The Populists and Progressive were form of movement that occurred during the outbreaks of the workers union after the civil war. The populists began during the late 1800s.The progressive began during the 1900s. There are many differences between these two movements, but yet these movements have many things that are similar.

“In the South, anti-Black violence declined. Black candidates were elected to political offices in communities where blacks had once been barred from voting, and many of the leaders or organizations that came into

In 1866, Congress passed The Civil Rights Act of 1866 which allowed them to be genuine citizens and thus granted them federal protection under the law. Score for the blacks. Furthermore, the South was placed under military rule to ensure that this act was being enforced. During this tremendous time of freedom, blacks were allowed to vote and hold office – something that finally extended a voice and position in our country to their community. Meanwhile, whites were growing tired of all the nonsense. They wanted their beloved Old South back. Many refused to attend the integrated Reconstruction-era state constitutional conventions. Southern whites would use highly exaggerated and publicized incidences of “social injustices” to protect their claims of being thrown over to so-called negro domination. Any action was necessary that could help clinch their argument and overturn the Reconstruction

Not all Southerners felt the same way about Reconstruction. Some did not like it and some were okay with it. Some whites embraced the new land in the South, and others reacted hostility. And they feared social and political change. An article called, “Journal of Kate Stone”, is about a young white Southern girl who kept little journal entries about everything that was happening during the Reconstruction era. She talked about how the Northerners disliked the Southerners. The Fifteenth Amendment also failed to give women their voting rights. So “Elizabeth Cady and Susan B. Anthony condemned the Republicans’ “negro first” strategy and pointed out that women remained “the only class of citizens wholly unrepresented in the government”” (Roark 426). This is how the women acted towards not being able to having the right to vote back then. Activist women stated that women should not trust in man. The Fifteenth Amendment played as the early feminist movement from its abolitionist roots. And these feminists established a suffrage crusade that attracted millions of women into the political

In 1865, the United States government implemented what was known as Reconstruction. Its’ purpose was to remove slavery from the south, and give African-American’s the freedom in which they deserved. However, the freedom that they deserved was not the freedom that they received. With documents like The Black Codes restricting them from numerous privileges that white people had and the terroristic organization known as the Klu Klux Klan attacking and killing them, African-American’s were still being oppressed by their government as well as their fellow man. Slavery may have been abolished, but African-American’s were not yet given the freedom and rights that their white counterparts took for granted.

Sub-point A: Women formed organizations to fight for suffrage. One of the most memorable events was the gathering of abolitionist activist at the Seneca Falls Convention. The Convention was organized by Elizabeth Candy Stanton and Lucretia Mott. The Convention showed attention to unfair treatment of women, the convention was attended by 300 people and 40 of them was men. (show pictures of the convention)

During reconstruction the United States was divided on social issues, presidential campaigns were won and loss on these issues during this period. The struggle for development of African Americans and how they initiated change in political, economic, educational, and social conditions to shape their future and that of the United States. (Dixon, 2000) The South’s attempts to recover from the Civil war included determining what to do with newly freed slaves and finding labor to replace them. The task of elevating the Negro from slave to citizen was the most enormous one which had ever confronted the country. Local governments implemented mechanisms of discrimination to combat citizenship

During the 1850’s the women’s rights movement in the United States continued to build, but lost momentum when the Civil War began. After the war ended, the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution were drafted and ratified; protection to all citizens - with the term “citizens” defined as male, and suffrage for black men, respectively. The drafting of the 15th Amendment caused animosity with women’s rights activists and led them to believe that this was their chance to push lawmakers for truly universal suffrage. They “allied

because African American men had the right to vote. It was proposed. That caused the division

There were many accomplishments from the populists, progressives, organized labors, and the women’s suffrage. The 15th amendment to the Constitution proposed compromise the right to vote to African American males. Countless female suffragists at the time were livid. They simply could not believe that those who agonized 350 years of bondage would be enfranchised before America's women. The main goal of the women’s suffrage movement is to achieve voting rights for women by income of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution. In November of 1869 this crowd focuses exclusively on gaining voting privileges for women through amendments to individual state constitutions. Also in 1903 The NATIONAL Woments Trade Union

Another, reason why women’s suffrage took so long, was the way men or women would respond to women’s Suffrage. The group that was against the suffrage movement was

Despite rebuke, these women were determined to progress towards equality with men. They believed that “it is the duty of the women in this country to secure… themselves their sacred right to enfranchisement” (Pleck 3). However, due to the political climate of the Civil War, the suffragists temporarily shelved their cause to join the abolitionists. They made this move in hopes of securing enfranchisement for themselves and emancipated African-Americans. “The suffragists quickly realized that there was little hope that their recently formed Equal Rights Association (whose aim was enfranchisement for both blacks and women), could prevail against…a strong Republican Party” (2) that only supported ratification of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, which gave African-Americans the right to vote. As an unfortunate consequence, rival factions emerged within the suffragist movement that divided the party on the issue of either challenging or joining the Republicans in the hope of gaining their

Whenever one looks at historical social movements, one common element that one often will find is that one of their major goals is to push for equality. The women's suffrage movement, the African American Civil Rights movement and the current struggle that LGBT Americans have for greater acceptance within society are all examples of this seeking of equality. However, one question that should be asked is whether or not equality within society can be achieved and thus if such actions to increase equality are legitimate. This is not to question the historic discrimination that existed for many of those social movements that sought equality, but rather to examine the notion that equality can exist within a society at all and if so at what costs.

One of the areas of research that I find myself drawn to is social movements. There are a multitude of questions attached to this branch of sociology, as it is encompassing of an expansive and complex niche of history. In my academic career, I have addressed specific social movements through a socio-historic lens, oftentimes placing emphasis on the impact of media. I have looked at the roots and development of a movement, the conditions necessary for a successful one, and how they interact with each other. Throughout my college career to date, this has manifested itself in a number of papers on the women’s movement, most recently on the progression of the different “waves” of the movement throughout history. I paid particular focus to how each

ransitioning away from the overview of the women’s movement, it is important to look at the women separately from the movement in a more general fashion. Are these women receiving any benefits from the meaningful Westernized gratitude? The significance of this comes from the Western approach of what a woman is and how Japanese women are determined to embody these characteristics and styles to fit into this standard. Clothing and beauty are two momentous ways of seeing how the West has been an essential part of Japanese women.