Analyze the causes of historical events. Understand causality as it relates to the Woman Suffrage Movement. Practice examining a scholarly journal article for information about causality. Choose one sentence or short section from the article you read on the women’s suffrage movement. Quote the sentence or section in your post and briefly explain how your chosen sentence or section illustrates the concept of historical causality.

The Women’s Movement: Suffrage

In 1848. the Seneca Falls Convention’s Declaration of Principles asserted women’s “sacred right to the elective franchise.” Over the course of the next 12 years, voting rights remained a major goal for the emerging women’s rights movement. but they were not the rnovement’s sole focus. economic. social, and educational issues also occupied prominent places on the movement’s agenda (“The Women’s Rights Movement ” 2016).

The program for the Woman Suffrage Parade on March 3, 1913 Click on the image above to learn more about the Woman Suffrage Parade (Click button for citation)
The Civil War interrupted the regular business of the women’s movement The National Women’s Rights Convention, which had been held annually since 1850. was suspended during the war. and most women’s rights activists devoted themselves to the cause of abolition In 1863 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony organized the Women’s National Loyal League to campaign for a constitutional amendment to ban slavery (DuBois, 1978)

Following the war, the right to vote became the central focus of the women’s rights movernent. but this issue precipitated a sharp division in the movement’s leadership It would take another five decades before women’s right to vote would finally be enshrined in the Constitution.
This learning block uses the woman suffrage movement as a way to look at the issue of causality and to develop expertise in assessing and locating pnmary and secondary sources. in support of developing a research paper.

Learning Objectives
In this learning block, you will
• Analyze the causes of historical events • Understand causality as it relates to the Woman Suffrage Movement • Practice examining a scholarly journal article for information about causality

Choose one sentence or short section from the article you read on the women’s suffrage movement. Quote the sentence or section in your post and briefly explain how your chosen sentence or section illustrates the concept of historical causality.

After reading the article on the ERA, summarize the author’s thesis statement about the ERA in one or two sentences. To support your answer, quote one or two sentences from the article that convey the author’s central point.

References
DuBois. E. (1978). Feminism and suffrage: Tne emergence Of WI independent women’s movement in America. 184,1869. Corneii university Press
Tne women’s rights movement. 184,1920. (2016). U S. House of Representatives, History Art 8. Archives. http://history_house gov/Exhibitions-and-PublicationsAVIC/Historical-Essays/No-Lacly/Womens-Rights/
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