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With decades and decades of effort and fighting, women were finally given the right to vote with the 19th Amendment. It took an immense amount of work to achieve this goal and milestone.

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The 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18th, 1920. The 19th gave women the right to vote after a very long fight.

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Stanton made her speech 20 years later than Anthony, and they make similar claims yet have contending reasonings on the situation.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for women's rights and gave her speech, The Solitude of the Self in 1892. She explains that women are their own person, and not property. Stanton also states women are about as hard working as men. Women took care of the house and children, which was as difficult as going out and getting a job. Everyone should have their right to the pursuit of happiness, as stated in the Constitution.

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Both Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony were women's rights activists, yet had different views.

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Susan B. Anthony was upset that black men were given equal rights and the right to vote before white women.

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Susan B. Anthony was a civil rights activist for women's rights. The fight for women's suffrage was a very long battle. Anthony was one of the most famous of the activists. One of her main arguments for her claim is that giving women the right to vote will only increase the amount of white votes. Susan B. Anthony died in 1906, and never saw women get the right to vote.

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Sojourner Truth was an African-American woman in the U.S. She was in a free state, so she was not a slave. She made her speech, "Ain't I a Woman?" as a message to white men in the country. She claims that white women are treated much better than black women. Doors are opened for them, they are lifted in and out of carriages, and always respected. She states that she is never treated with such respect, even though she is a woman too.

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With the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, the black population still did not have equal rights to the white citizens.

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The Civil War ended in the Confederacy surrendering, which was a huge step toward the progression of equal rights.

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The 14th and 15th amendments were passed shortly after the 13th. The 14th gave African-Americans equal rights in terms of law. It was ratified in 1868, and forbid the denial of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for all American citizens. The 15th amendment, ratified in 1870, gave the right to vote to African-American citizens.

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The Civil War was the fight to end or keep the right to own slaves. The Confederacy surrendered, and slavery was abolished.

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The 13th Amendment was ratified on December 6th, 1865, after the Civil War. This amendment officially abolished slavery in the States, or any involuntary servitude. Punishment for a crime was an exception.

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Dred Scott fought the Fugitive Slave Act that allowed slave owners to reclaim escaped slaves from free states.

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The slavery clauses that were in the United States, led to a separation of the country, and caused the Civil War.

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The American Civil War, beginning in 1861 was the fight between the South, or Confederacy versus the North, or the Union. The Confederacy was fighting for the rights to own slaves, while the Union were abolitionists. 620,000 soldiers were killed during the war, making it the costliest war in American history. Eventually, in 1865, the South surrendered.

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Fredrick Douglass explains that all other white citizens are free and equal, which is what the holiday celebrates. The black population in America were neither free nor equal to the white population.

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Dred Scott was a slave owned by Dr. John Emerson and his wife, Eliza Sanford. Emerson took him to the free states Illinois and Wisconsin, where he met his wife. Scott also met his wife, Harriet. Ownership of her was transferred to Emerson. When Emerson died, ownership went to Eliza. Scott sued for his freedom and lost. Eliza was later married to an abolitionist, and he sold Scott and his family to the son of his original owner, Peter Blow. Scott and his family were freed in 1857 and Scott died in 1858.

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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

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Fredrick Douglass was a former slave that escaped to the free state of New York. He had to travel a great distance to get away from his plantation. In his speech, he explains that the purpose of celebrating the 4th is to celebrate the freedom and independence the people now hold. This freedom only is given to certain people based on something they cannot control. They all celebrate what many do not have.

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Slavery Clauses in the U.S. Constitution

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Slavery Clauses in the U.S. Constitution

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The three-fifths compromise caused African American slaves to only be seen as three-fifths of a white citizen when they vote. The fugitive slave clause also was a right given to slave owners to reclaim escaped slaves. Even if they made it to a free state.