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Essay / The Women's Suffrage Movement - 755
Despite the strenuous efforts of Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, the women's movement during the 19th century failed to acquire the right women to vote in federal elections. However, their luck would change significantly during the Progressive Era when, riding a wave of reform, the women's movement was rewarded with the Nineteenth Amendment, which crowned a series of reform-inspired amendments to the U.S. Constitution. United States of America. The women's movement changed with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. This allowed citizens of the United States that no citizen could be denied the right to vote based on their sexual orientation. The passage of this amendment made many women believe that equality had become a reality. Not all women thought this amendment changed anything; they believed that much more needed to be done before women could truly become equal. Because many of them had campaigned for more, they had so much they felt they had to work for. They believed that this was not enough and that an Equal Rights Amendment needed to be passed to make all people truly equal. The group that attempted to pass the Equal Rights Amendment was the National Women's Party (NWP). Although the NWP worked very hard to get this amendment, they were not as successful as they thought they would be. Since the NWP was unsuccessful, many things were done by other groups. The women's suffrage movement had its beginnings in the women's suffrage movement. During the Civil War, a new group appeared. The group was known as the American Equal Rights Association (AERA). Their fight for equal rights led them to change the name of the... middle of the newspaper...... where most women of that time had "abortions behind the scenes". Sanger saw a solution to these unplanned pregnancies. Sangers' theory was that for women to be on an equal footing in society, they should have the right to decide whether or not to have a child. Margret Sanger's social revolution changed the lives of women across the country and changed opinions on the use of contraception. These social revolutions had a major impact on American society and culture. They undoubtedly changed the way Americans were perceived and treated. Whether it was the regulation of “big business” or women being considered equal in society, it was definitely an era that revolutionized America. There has been no other era in America that has had such an impact on American culture as the social revolutions of the 20th century..