HIS 72B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Piece Work, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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They wrote amendments to the constitution in a specific way to exclude women. Suffragists and abolitionists worked together to get voting rights for each group. Decided to vote for the amendment that only allowed for black men to vote because adding women in would never pass--be strategic. Woman"s suffrage and the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. Women began getting involved in suffrage rights during the 1830-1840s when the. Republican party wanted to enfranchise black men during reconstruction, but abolitionist movement started not women (of any color) Elizabeth cady stanton and susan b. anthony. Did not agree with awsa strategy to agree with only black men voting. Protective labor legislation: working women and immigration. Shift in where immigrants are coming from during 1890-1920. East coast saw southern and eastern europe (italian catholics, eastern. West coast also saw asian immigration starting in 1849. Pull factors increased need for labor rhetoric of promise of democracy, promise of freedom.
