Women Rights to Vote

In this paper, we will discuss the voting rights for women in the United States and evaluate the significance of the speech delivered by Susan B. Anthony in 1873. Susan arrested for illegal voting in 1872 presidential elections. Her speech highlighted the concern of women rights for voting and questions the constitutional provisions for women prevalent in the United Sates at that time. When women's suffrage was adopted in the United States in 1920 with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, it was expected (and feared by some) that women would enter the electorate on an equal basis ...