How Did Carrie Chapman Catt Play In The Women's Rights Movement

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The women’s rights movement happened through decades, which this is referred to the antebellum period. The women’s rights movement in the United States was very traumatic. It is important because women are people and this is when women gained all rights. This movement was from 1848-1920. Some men were against the women’s rights movement during this period in time. They weren’t allowed to have rights and were property, just like the slaves in this period. The men and women in the United States were involved but most importantly the women being discriminated of their sex.The women’s rights movement was a fight on behalf of the women’s rights in the United States; they fought until they got the right, became a person instead of property to the men of the country and the people that were involved.

Carrie Chapman Catt lived in the United States as a woman in the country. Carrie lived from 1859-1947.
Carrie played an important role in the women’s rights movement because she was the president of the NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association). She was the president from 1900-1904 and 1915-1920. She got an education at Iowa State University. Carrie was a leader who campaigned for the 19th amendment and she gave women the right to vote. She gave women a sense to themselves of actually being …show more content…

The women’s rights movement still affect us today because men still discriminate women. Men still make women do all the housework and most of them also have jobs. The women’s rights movement was from July 13th, 1848 to 1920. By 1920 women had the right to vote and then from there on they got more rights. This movement will affect us for many years to come because the men still discriminated the women. The women’s rights movement was a powerful movement in the history of the United States during the antebellum

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