Heather Cox Richardson
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I believe in full suffrage as a right, he said.
I believe we had a moral and legal right to ratify.
I know that a mother's advice is always safest for her boy to follow, and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification.
Tennessee was the thirty sixth state to ratify the amendment, and the last one necessary to make the amendment the law of the land once the Secretary of State certified it.
The new amendment was patterned on the fifteenth Amendment, which protected the right of black men to vote, and it read The right 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.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Like the momentum for the fifteenth Amendment, the push for rights for women had taken root during the Civil War, as women backed the United States armies with their money, buying bonds and paying taxes, with their loved ones, sending sons and husbands and fathers to the warfront.
with their labor, working in factories and fields and taking over from men in the nursing and teaching professions, and even with their lives spying and fighting for the Union.
In the aftermath of the war, as the divided nation was rebuilt, many of them expected they would have a say in how it was reconstructed, and
But, to their dismay, the fourteenth Amendment explicitly tied the right to vote to male citizens, inserting the word male into the Constitution for the first time.
Boston abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, was outraged.
The laws of the era gave control of her property and her children to her abusive husband, and while far from a rabble rouser, she wanted the right to adjust those laws so they were fair.
In this moment, it seemed the right the founders had articulated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to consent to the government under which one lived, was to be denied to the very women who had helped preserve the country, while white male Confederates and now black men both enjoyed that right.
The Civil War came to an end, leaving the slave not only emancipated, but endowed with the full dignity of citizenship.
The women of the North had greatly helped to open the door which admitted him to freedom and its safeguard the ballot.
Was this door to be shut in their face?
Hal wondered.
The next year, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association, and six months later, Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe founded the American Woman Suffrage Association.
The National Women's Suffrage Association wanted a general reworking of gender roles in American society, drawing from the Seneca Falls Convention that Stanton had organized in eighteen forty eight.
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