Category: Women’s Suffrage Movement

In most cases, a cartoon speaks louder than a text, so that is why political cartoons are very important. Cartoons are highly valuable sources of history because it puts light on events that has taken place in the past, therefore cartoons are very helpful to people researching about the event, teachers, writers and or students. The most important part of a political cartoon is that without talking about the event, the cartoon itself displays points or ideas together that makes it so simple/easy for people that cannot read or write. Most of history books contain cartoons because cartoon in many cases reveals more than words can do as some people cannot easily read between lines of a written text, but they can visually evaluate better. These two cartoons (SERMONS IN STONES) and (Asquith’s Anti-suffrage salt) so simply reveals so much that has happened during the suffrage movement in just two cartoons, if this was a written text, it might have created so many books because one cartoon is showing all the women did during the suffrage movement, how they promoted their campaigns both the suffragists and the suffragettes, one group violently breaking the windows, which we can see in the cartoon disturbing the peaceful and persuasive conversation of the other group. The other political cartoon conveys the difficulties that the suffrage movement has faced, Herbert Asquith who was extremely against the women suffrage and it also shows that vote for women was not more important to Asquith than having a bath. To begin with, the Punch was a magazine of humour and satire, which ran from 1841-2002. A British organization well known globally for its intelligence and irreverence, which was the main reason that helped it to be successful, it launched the term ‘cartoon’ as we know it today, that turned to be the most famous term of the period and its political & social cartoons affected the movement of governments, displaying life with great attention paid to the detail from the 19th and 20th centuries. These cartoons played a massive role in process of election and it also influenced society in many ways.

According to 1890-1939 (HEINEMANN ADVANCED HISTORY) book, by Rosemary Rees, the tactics used by the suffrage women in their early years of the movement included: campaigns, the traditional middle-class methods to persuade and convince people to support them, they held meetings and demonstrations to encourage other women and men to either join them or show sympathy, lobbying, and writing letters. Their overall tactic places like Glasgow, Bristol, Norwich, and Dublin were mainly used by both the Suffragist and the suffragette for raising funds, to disseminate propaganda, to promote the profile of their campaigns and to recruit more new members, their aim was to gain the vote, in order to have the vote, they needed a considerable number of people wanting the same.

They also were holding meetings in small groups in their own homes, churches, community halls and/or factory canteens. We can see this in the cartoon, where John bull, an imagery man, who is a personification of England and he is displayed in cartoons, is meeting the woman in his office or study, as the books on the table, the cabinets and the one to one meeting table are presented, this shows the aims of the suffrage women (non-militant, suffragist) were to convince important politicians, to get to the main people, politicians or non-politicians like writers and/or printers, whom could help them write and print as much as they can for their campaigns until their message is heard by the target audience. However, she is being distracted by the militants, suffragettes. On February 13th in 1907 the WSPU (The Women’s Social and Political Union) successfully had their “first women’s parliament” as a protest versus being band from the franchise, in Westminster. Millicent Fawcett was an important and active person in campaigning for university education for women and she was soon known as the president of NUWSS, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, she was the first woman to speak her mind and debate on the women’s suffrage movement in 1908 in the Oxford Union, women were gradually achieving to gain their rights, however Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney worsen the situation by heckling Winston Churchill aggressively in Manchester at a liberal party meeting and then disrespected police officers, therefore they were both arrested as they refused to pay the fine, so they spent a short time imprisonment to attract publicity and they succeeded as they were the topic of media at the time. The cartoon brings this in picture by having breaks being thrown through the windows and the windows-banging women are disturbing and the suffrage group under the leadership of Christabel, however worked together with the independent Labour party, Christabel had created a group with militant nature that she could no longer control..

The above women: Christabel, studied law at Manchester university, but just because she was a woman, she wasn’t given admission to Lincoln’s Inn. She joined her mother (Emmeline Pankhurst) in 1903 to support and lead the WSPU, she also made an unsuccessful attempt to become an MP in 1918.) And Annie Kenney, who worked full-time since the age of thirteen and organised groups of women workers to support and improve the pay and conditions for women and she started speaking on behalf of the WSPU, taking part in in events wearing a shawl and clogs, the only working-class woman who had a key position in the leadership of WSPU when the Pankhurst was in prison. The following were included the non-militant tactics by Christabel Pankhurst after 1909: pouring acid on golf greens, attacking the homes of prominent politicians and other important political buildings, and sitting lights to the content of pillar boxes, they were deliberately getting themselves arrested to get attention. The most important of all, the thing that is shown in the cartoon is that in 1912 the NUWSS attacked London, they smashed/banged the windows of all the shops, the Foreign Office, the Home Office, and basically all important government and civil services buildings. Some important painting galleries and some of the houses of famous people were demolished by the suffragettes because they thought that it was the only language that men understood. Their aim was to gain the vote for women forcingly and by being violent; they believed being soft will not take them anywhere, but we all know that having a persuasive and convincing conversation is more likely to achieve better than forcing one to do something for you, therefore they faced imprisonment for their criminal behaving.

Despite that all, in this cartoon we can see a non-militant suffragist who is sitting calmly in her seat, her hands and gestures conveys that she is having a very important and affective conversation with John Bull, however we see stones being thrown through the window, which distracts the conversation and we automatically think that those breaks are being thrown by the angry suffragette ladies (illegal tacktics). According to Britain 1890-1939, the suffragette ladies were the aggressive ones whom were breaking the windows of shops and were attacking buildings of government and some important people to gain themselves the vote, so this cartoon is very useful in terms of aim and tactics because it encourages other ladies to calm down and work together, it also motivates the main men (politicians) to do something to stop those ladies from being violent and or to give them their rights as well as helping people evaluate how to gain something without making a disaster. Obviously, you cannot gain anything by being violent to your country.

And to consider the handbag, gloves, shoes, and the fur coat of the non-militant suffragist lady conveys that she is from upper-class, a rich, and educated woman. According to historical sources, in the 20th century wearing fur and white gloves were the signs of educated and rich upper-class women, white gloves that only being worn by the queen now. These women were not enfranchised, therefore they also started campaigning for their rights by either supporting the suffrage groups with supplies or joining them by themselves and participating in every activity and meeting.

Cartoon 2: Asquith’s Anti-Suffragette Bath Slat. “Tell the ladies I can’t see them just now.”

In the above political cartoon, we are mainly presented with the attitude of the liberal Party towards the Suffrage Movement, however we can say that this cartoon also includes the opposition of other political parties. The Liberal, the leaders of the country could give the vote to women after their victory in 1906. Although, the government was expected to have the “women suffrage” on its most important things to do list. The second only to the (Prime minister), Herbert Asquith the chancellor of exchanged with a very powerful cabinet-level, who became the Prime Minister after the prime minister Campbell Bannerman seriouse illness and resigned from his office. Asquith was against the vote for women idea. The Irish nationalist, a political party also believed that men came first, so working-class men didn’t have the vote yet, no woman is to have the vote too, Asquith relied on the Irish nationalist and the labour MPs. Although many backbenches supported the women’s suffrage, the bill of women’s enfranchisement was repeatedly rejected by Asquith’s opposition in 1907 and 1908. However, in 1910 the property-owning women bill was carried, but unfortunately that also failed because the parliament had so many other more important things to give it the parliamentary time than vote for women, the Britain 1890-1939 states. Asquith said that “he prefers to support the male suffrage than the women” in 1911, which brought a lot of more reasons to why cannot the upper-class or rich women have the vote, as male with no property could vote after the 1913 introduction of universal male suffrage because after that, it was not about how educated or rich society was, but it was about female and male, the majority of male could vote but no women were given the vote yet. After that women were largely supported by so many politicians and important people because the gender inequality was not acceptable to all men.

Furthermore, this political cartoon clearly says “Anti-Suffragette Salt of Asquith” which implies that Asquith was the major problem for women’s vote who threw salt in the eyes of women repeatedly. This cartoon visually shows him against the vote for women. Asquith is taking a bath and telling the ladies that he cannot see them at the moment, implies that he did not consider women’s suffrage movement as a considerable thing, he rather chose having a bath than talking about this issue to the ladies. According to history, he thought that women should not be given the vote because male, in general are not equal to women-women should not be trusted for vote, they must be leaded by men because they mentally and physically are weaker and should stay away from political issues. This cartoon somehow hiddenly includes sexual content as Asquith is having a bath and responds to women in a kind funny way, like a joke or something, which is linked to the sexually assaulted women. according to the Britain 1890-1939 book, approximately 300 suffragettes got into a fight with the police in November 1910 while trying to storm the meeting room of the house of commons, when they were sexually and physically disrespected, in total 132 suffragettes’ women’s sworn statements were announced, therefore that day was known as “Black Friday”. On the same black Friday, many arrests were made to scare women, so they will not come against the government and not protest again, those arrests included Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst. And then in 1913 Emily Wilding Davison threw herself under the king’s horse. All they did was for attention of public, women did everything just for not to be forgotten, but to make the leaders make a decision in favour of women.

However, we can say that the government played the women repeatedly, it is displayed in the cartoon as Asquith is being rude to the women, as after 1910 and 1911 bill the WSPU prevented all the militant-tasks just to show that they did not want any other extra thing, except the vote, unfortunately the bill failed because it received so little support from the government, therefore WSPU increased their activities again. Shortly after the WSPU’s start to militant campaigns again, the government strongly banned its members to participate in Liberal Party gatherings unless they had signed the tickets. Christabel Pankhurst was forced to fly to France, forbidden WSPU meetings and sued the printer that had created (the Suffragettes). The suffragettes in prisons were considered as political prisoners and they were handled as normal criminals in 1908. Hunger strikes were used in prisons by the prisoners in protests, however, to keep them alive the government decided to command to force-feed them to avoid a martyr’s death. They were forcingly fed through their mouth, nostrils and sometimes through rectum and vagina. Again, women did this all to keep the issue of “vote for women” in media, which successfully turned many against the government.

On the other hand, Asquith was being womaniser as it is also shown in the cartoon, one of the evidence of women were being played by the government is the Cat and Mouse Act. In 1913, the “Cat and Mouse Act” was passed by the government which is given the comic name because it actually was to play with women like a cat plays with a mouse before it fully eat or kill the mouse, The “Cat and Mouse Act” allowed the women, whose health was affected by the hunger strike to be legally released for a short period of time, until they had recovered and gained their strengths to be imprisoned again. In 1913 Annie Kenney was imprisoned again and that is when she went under the “Cat and Mouse” Act.

In addition, I am going to discuss the questionable attitude of Asquith. It seems like Asquith thought that women would stop their fighting for the vote because he treated the women as non-equal to men, he might believe the “different sphere”, however when the Liberal government realised that women would fail them in elections, women were powerful enough to fight against men in political fighting, he changed his mind after failing many times in elections because of the massive support of NUWSS to the Liberal opponents in 1914. The evidence of his change of mind is believed to be the meeting of Sylvia Pankhurst, who has hinted that he had changed his mind and he is about ‘ to agree to vote for women, but unfortunately, everything ended before it started because the ww1 broke out in 1914, so the vote for women was no longer the most essential issue, neither to the women, nor to the government. Women also participated in the war and finally, after the war ended, it was obvious the enfranchisement of women was surely going to happen. As women took a large part in the war, it played an affective role in the change of minds of those against the vote for women. The reform for vote to women was discussed in 1916 in the speaker’s conference to talk about a curtain age that might be appropriate, 30 or 35. The most important issue that was largely discussed was that “which party will the women vote for” and which political party will be fully vanished because of the large group of women coming to vote, the Liberal or the Labour or even the Conservative? The Liberal and Labour believed that such a large group of women will not fail them because they will not necessarily vote Conservative. However, conservatives were sure that it was beneficial for them to agree to the enfranchisement. The government replaced many those MPs who were opposed to the idea of enfranchisement of women in 1916, when David Lloyd George replaced Asquith as a PM. The duration of the war encouraged many, including Asquith and gave them the opportunity to change their mind “without losing face”, so Asquith changed and explained to the House of Commons in 1917, and that was the time when the “Act of Representation of people” finally allowed all women age 30 and all men age 21 to vote in 1918.

And lastly, I think historical cartoons are extremely useful because they first were drawn at the time of the event and we can also see the event in picture as well as the fact that are drawn to put light on one specific part of the event with loads of information and links to every small detail of the event. The usefulness of a political cartoon shows the attitude of the political parties or government towards the issue, it displays the influential fact and how it has affected the event. The Aim and Tactic cartoons reveals the positive and negative attitudes of the specific group because their aim was to STOP the bad things that was about to ruin their reputation. I think the cartoons sums it all up in only one picture, whereas it takes books to explain the things drawn in a cartoon.

Today, Canada is known as a peacekeeping, accepting, and welcoming country. This reputation was not given, but earned from the time the country was formed and throughout her history. She has fought and protected, failed and succeeded. Her government has made many choices and achieved many things that would affect Canada for decades to come. Over time, numerous events and people have defined what it means not only to live in Canada, but to be Canadian. Women’s suffrage during World War 1 has created a land of opportunity for women in Canada. The way the work force operates and what Canada produces is because of the baby boom in the 1950s. The independent country she is today is the result of the fight for autonomy in the 1920s and 30s. Canada’s identity has been shaped by her history as proven throughout the events of the last 100 years, including the women’s suffrage movement, the baby boom of the 50s and 60s, and Canada’s path to autonomy.

The first event that defines what it means to be in Canada is the women’s suffrage movement. At the end of the 1870s, women across Canada began advocating for the right to vote. Dr. Emily Howard Stowe founded The Canadian Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1889, which led to groups like the Women’s Christian Temperance Union who fought to gain enfranchisement for women. The first province to give women the right to vote was Manitoba, on January 28, 1916, and the last was Quebec, on August 8, 1944 (History of Women Suffrage in Canada, 2005). Giving women the right to vote impacted how Canada would evolve and what the government would look like. In addition, the Famous Five, (Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby) took the Persons Case to the Privy Council in Britain, earning women the status of being a ‘person’ under the law. From 1929 and onwards, women were considered people, and had the same opportunities as men, including running for government positions (Strong-Boag, 2016). Suffrage earned women the right to be people in Canada. Equally is important as the initial effects of the suffrage movement, it has had many long-term effects. Suffragists fought for the enfranchisement not only for themselves, but for their daughters, granddaughters, and the Canadian women of the future. Women have been able to influence who is in positions of power and make sure they best represent the whole population, not just the men. Had the suffragists failed, women would likely be years behind where they are now. The suffrage movement of the early 1900s defined what it means to be a woman in Canada.

A second event that defines Canada is the baby boom. At the end of World War 2, (1946) to 1965, the birth rate in Canada skyrocketed, and over 8.2 million babies were born. This means the average woman gave birth to 3.7 children. As a result, Canada’s population increased drastically. The number of annual births in Canada increased form 253,000 in 1940 to 479, 000 in 1960, an increase of 18%. By 2036, there will be approximately 3.3 million Canadians over the age of 80, and the number of senior citizens may be higher than the number of children. The increase in population defined Canada’s demographic and how she would function for years to come (Krotki, Henripin, 2013). In addition, the baby boomers were the hippies that fought for peace, love, and human rights. Dr. Dominique Clément, a historian at the University of Victoria believes the human rights Canadians today have are result of the baby boomers’ activism. ‘The youth of the Sixties were the front-runners of a specific historical movement in which political activism and radical ideas were pronounced. Though the generation was not revolutionary, it had a revolutionary impact.'(Valpy, 2007). The baby boomers fought for the rights of the poor, gay people, the disadvantaged, and for the protection of racial minorities, and influenced the laws that protect these people today. Thirdly, the demographic of Canada, specifically related to the baby boom, will severely affect the healthcare industry as the baby boomers age. By 2031, all baby boomers will be 65 years old, and 23% of Canada’s population will be seniors. The healthcare industry will be flooded with seniors in need of both physical and mental help. The second most expensive service provided by the Canadian government is prescription drugs, which cost the government $29 billion, 14% of the budget, in 2013 (Generations in Canada, 2018). As the baby boomers age, their health care needs will require the government’s attention, and will become a focal point of Canadians. In sum, Canadian baby boomers define Canada’s identity in the past, present, and future.

A third moment that defined Canada is her path to autonomy in the 1920s and 30s. Firstly, the Chanak affair and the Halibut Treaty in 1922 and 1923 proved that Canada could, would, and had the right to make independent diplomatic decisions. In fall 1922, nationalists in Turkey pushed Greek forces out of their country, threatening to do the same to the British. Great Britain called on Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa to send troops on September 15th. On the 18th, Prime Minister King and his party decided that Parliament must make the choice of whether or not to send Canadian men. Before a decision was reached, the Chanak crisis had ended (Hillmer, 2006). On March 4, 1923, the United States and Canada signed the Halibut Treaty to control overfishing in the Pacific Northwest. This was the first treaty created and signed by Canada without Britain’s approval or signature, proving Canada was a self-governing country. These two events lead to Canada becoming fully independent and highlighted her ability to make decisions (Hillmer, Scott, 2006). Secondly, the Balfour Report made all of Britain’s colonies, including Canada, equal to Britain. At the Imperial conference of 1926, Prime Minister King and the Prime Minister of South Africa, J.B.M Hertzog, developed the Balfour Report that stated that Britain and her colonies were “equal in status”. This report was the beginning of the shift in the law regarding Canada’s autonomy (Tattrie, 2006). Thirdly, the Statute of Westminster, or Canada’s Declaration of Independence, brought the Balfour Report into British law. Signed on December 11, 1931, the Statute gave Canada freedom to pass, create, edit, and repeal laws without the consent of the British government. This ultimately led to the signing of Canada’s Constitution in 1982. Westminster allowed Canada to completely separate herself from the Crown and create her own identity and country (Cuggy, 2011). Canada’s path to autonomy was long and winding, but was a great success for the independence of Canada.

The Canadian identity has been formed over hundreds of years. Since the Aboriginal peoples arrived on her land, her history began being written. There have been struggles, success, and failures. Terrible and wonderful things have been done on her land. The women’s suffrage movement was an arduous and uphill battle, but the results allowed many extraordinary things to follow. The baby boom of the 1950s was a time of joy, love, and celebration that showed how positive emotions could impact a country. Her path to autonomy established Canada’s independence and freedom as a middle power that still exists today. To conclude, Canada’s identity has been defined by many moments, such as the suffrage movement, the baby boom, and her path to autonomy. Canada certainly is true north, strong, and free.

Canada is a great place to live, it is multicultural and has many proud Canadians. Canada has come very far over the last 150 years and has many historical events that mark Canadian history. When people ask what makes Canada so great, there are many responses but, the knowledge of defining moments in Canadian history support why it is so great. Firstly, Canada has accomplished a lot but, the Woman Suffrage Movement marks how great Canada really is. Secondly, Canada was involved in both wars and fought in many battles however, they showed how amazing they are in the battle of Vimy Ridge. Lastly, Canada has been known for creating and being known for many things but, the creation of insulin had a major impact on society and Canada as a whole. These three historical events; Woman Suffrage movement, Vimy Ridge, and insulin have made Canada who they are and had a serious impact that makes Canada so great today.

The Woman Suffrage Movement didn’t have any real action till the early 1900’s but, Women’s Suffrage groups have been around since late 1870’s. The Woman Suffrage Movement is a group of women that were trying to gain their right to vote in political elections. It was started by Dr. Emily Howard Stowe and the timeline was from 1870’s to 1940 not including the first nations people. The fight so woman can have the right to vote went on for years and years and it was during First World War that some woman got the right to vote. Every woman who believed having the right to vote worked very hard to gain human rights. Eventually woman got the right to vote locally but, they went even farther and wanted to be able to vote in provincial elections. The right for woman to vote didn’t happen all at once, provinces and territories’ went in stages. The first place to gain the right for woman to vote was Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta on January 28, 1916. This was a big step in the movement and later on BC and Ontario got the right to vote in 1917 as well the war- time elections act was introduced to Canada. As years went on more and more places won the right for woman to vote the last place was Quebec in 1940 and Northwest Territories in 1951. Even later on Canada started to show how multicultural and they have Aboriginal peoples the right to vote in 1960. This had a major impact on society in Canada when it happened, it changed the way people thought about woman, jobs, and Canadas future. This was one of the first steps to equality and making the shape of Canada but, known really placed that together when it was going on back then. This changed the government system especially when, one woman become the first to join parliament. Her name was Agnes Macphail, which on December 6, 1921 she became the first female in the house of commons. Also, this changed the job positions as the Suffrage Movement was taking place the Fair Employment. Practices Act and the Female Employees Fair Remuneration Act in 1951. Not only were woman beginning to be payed the same as men for the same work but, this all meant females were starting to join in helping war efforts and taking on “men” jobs. Even though woman wages only were 50 to 80 percent of men there was still many females employed and it was only growing as they gained strength in having equal rights. The female employment went up down through the years with the great depression and the time gap between the wars but in 1945 33.2 percent of woman had jobs.5 The impact on society back than from the woman suffrage movement still effects Canada today. If this didn’t happen back in 1900’s Canada wouldn’t be the same. Who knows if woman would have the right to vote in 2019 or if they would have jobs. We today still deal with equal rights of men and woman but, allowing woman to vote in elections helped strengthen the equality today. Studies show by 2014 woman were 47 percent of the work force. The major impact on Canada today is when the woman Suffrage Movement passed and all woman had the right to vote by 1960 it helped Canada show how great and equal, they are. To conclude, the Woman Suffrage Movement shaped Canada on who they are. This shows how we believed in some thong and proud Canadians fought for it and that we are multicultural. The Woman Suffrage Movement not only impacted the Canadians living there but, it really shows how great Canada is today.

Canada fought in many battles and helped in many wars like, WW1, WW2, and the Cold War but, Canada stood out in the battle of Vimy Ridge. Vimy ridge took place in WW1 and happened April 9-12 1917.8 The goal of this battle was to take over Germanys troops. Canada was placed in the north France and there were 4 divisions. The first attack took place at 5:30am April 9th. The battle took lots of planning and practicing as they knew this would be a long hard-fought battle. The Canadian troops fought for 3 days and forced the Germans into dug outs and finally they surrender.8 They had battle equipment and machine guns, laying everywhere and will forceful heavy firing they got the top of Vimy Ridge. The hill was 7km long and 476 feet and when they reached the top of the hill victories was there’s and it marked Canadian history. The battle caused 10,000 plus death and over 7000 soldiers where wounded. This battle was significant in Canadian history and it brought Canada closer in many ways. First, the impact on society when the event happened was huge people just didn’t think of it as a huge loss in life but, a sacrifice so Canada could be one. The biggest reason this battle was so important to Canada was because the 4 divisions of Canada came together and fought as one.8 There was around 15,000 Canadian infantry and 100,000 soldiers that fought in the Germans fronts.8 This was an impact because for so long Canada has always followed the British and stayed behind them. This was a step of independence as they came together to form a nation. Today this has a impact as it is still taught in the history curriculum and it shows the students how Canada overcame following the British and set their own path. Diamond from the CTV News made a point how “school programs, as well as history lessons offered to new Canadians, are the key to continued education about Canada’s Great War sacrifices.

” Overall, the battle of Vimy Ridge shows how Canadians did something the British and French could not, and they accomplished it by themselves. The battle wasn’t just another victory, but it was a defining moment for Canada. It had a major impact on history as it was one of the ways Canadian became independent and supports why Canada is so great.

Lastly, Canada has been known for many of things like poutine and maple syrup but, the discovery of insulin has made Canada stand out even more than they already do. The finding of insulin was in the summer of 1921. It was found by a group of Toronto people attending the university of Toronto but, the idea was brought up by Dr. Frederick Banting.10 For years people who studied diabetes thought that something to do with the pancreas could control diabetes. After years scientist started to give up until the idea was brought up and the team expanded, and biochemist joined the team. As time passed it advanced and they began their study on human and the finally discovered insulin. This was a breakthrough for Canada it was considered a sugar sickness and people classified it as a fatal disease. The only real treatment before insulin was a starvation diet and many people died due to poor care. If you were diagnosed with diabetes it was a good chance you wouldn’t live, from recorded data it showed before insulin 5 percent of adults died after 2 years and less than 20 percent lived more than ten years. When it was discovered it had serious impact on Canadians not only was it saving life’s but, Canada was the first country to have access to a life saving medicine. Diabetes was causing blindness and organs were failing with no treatment the discovery of insulin truly changed the way people lived their lives in Canada with diabetes. Not only was it helping Canadians, but it would later be spread worldwide to help millions. The impact of insulin still affects us today, with many discoveries over the years diabetes continues to have more serve cases and with the discovery of insulin in 22 people have been able to better the technology and save more life’s. Today it is estimated 3.4 million people in Canada have diabetes and the discovery of insulin in the 20 has allowed it to become more advanced and help save people to this day. To summarize, the discovery of insulin showed how they never gave up on an important topic and how Canada started a amazing medicine that saved so many lives.

In conclusion, Canada is so great for many of reasons but, especially because of these 3 major historical events. To summarize, the points made the woman suffrage movement showed how great and multicultural Canada is. Also, how it is a defining movement in Canadian history. Next, the battle of Vimy Ridge shows how Canada gained independence and came together as a nation. Lastly, the discovery of insulin showed how Canada is recognized for something so brilliant and has saved many lives. In these points made it is proven just how great Canada is and how nor is it just a country but a thriving nation.

This is the same fundamental principle that men have been instilled into women mind. That means in summary: if I can put someone down even in my social class or race then I can stay in power but importantly on top; that is the definition of ‘white privilege’ that is illustrated from the previous readings listed above.

Not only did separate race women but race became the definition of social classes; that meant where one immigrated from defined an individual into a specific social class. Which meant social class was defined by race and where one immigrated from. This example can be clearly illustrated from selected reading entitled: ‘Form the Russian Pale to Labor Organizing In New York City.

In these selected reading we witness European women being discrimination by the white elite. For instance, a woman from Russia coming to the USA; she would automatically be placed into a factory working under an unfair condition such as long hours, no restroom breaks, and lastly, low wages illustrated (pg.363) .

These created tension between native women vs. immigrated women; this led to social inequality. For instance, native women would have the opportunity to attend school while foreign women would be forcedly placed in factory illustrated (pg.363).

This was due to the Chinese Exclusive Act, which limited foreign women to education opportunities and while native women were attending school illustrated (pg.363). Foreign women were doing the standard work such as laundry, cooking, cleaning that a typical woman would have been doing but due to massive immigration overflow during the early 1900s illustrated (pg.365). Elite women were oppressing foreign women in the same manner men have been suppressing them. On pg. 363 it clearly illustrated this point perfectly:

‘At an age when most girls in the United States were still in grade school, immigrant working girls like Newman spent twelve-to-fourteen hours a day in the hardest of atmospheres.”

Helen Keller was discriminated and judged heavily by your family for resending Confederate identity. Wells-Barnett’s was against lynching and supported a northern ideology. Chinese Exclusion Act caused foreign women to be suppressed by elite women due to social class.

This was illustrated through harsh labor conditions and by limiting opportunities such as higher education. These examples illustrated above proves that there much tension between women due to indifference within ideology relating to race and social class.

In summary: The Women’s Suffrage Movement created many doors of opportunity for women and became the cornerstone within women history. The Women’s Suffrage Movement brought social and economic equality which created more opportunities for all women.

By the early twentieth century, women were able to attend college and had the opportunities to excel in various career opportunities. Women began to enter into male-dominated professions such as law, medicine, and even corporations. The Women’s Suffrage Movement secure women’s place in society; that meant for once women were guaranteed citizenship privilege such as the right to vote. This is the first time men were viewing women as an equal member within society.

Furthermore, The Women’s Suffrage Movement increased economic roles within society; due to the fact, that there were more educational opportunities for women. These motivated more women to find their full potential in life itself. In positive note: women’s salaries increased but not to the amount that men were receiving. Nevertheless, this still was a significant success for women because it was a leap from what it used to be. The fight against women inequality began to cripple when the state of Wyoming approved women right to vote in 1869. This, in turn, became the first suffrage law in U.S. history.

By 1913, there were 12 states, the National Woman’s Party, led by Alice Paul, decided to invest time and money in those states as a way to push The Women Suffrage Movement through Congress. Subsequently, the participation within World War I made the support of women even more crucial; this provided the suffragist’s firepower against Congress.

By 1919, it successfully passed both houses of Congress and was shortly ratified by all the necessary states. Finally, women achieved justice with the 19th Amendment, also referred to as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. In August 1920, the 19th Amendment officially became a law. The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states:

‘The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”

In conclusion: The Women’s Suffrage Movement lead to social and economic advancements such as increasing wages and career opportunities, access to voting polls and lastly improvement within all sectors of life. The purpose of The Women’s Suffrage Movement was to amend the 14th amendment so that women can have citizenship opportunities such as voting. The passing 19th amendment accomplished this; this new amended to allow women the rights to citizenship. Women were now able to explore new opportunities within a career, family life, and even new political power because for once women were viewed as citizens.

This was the stepping stone for all women and will be the blueprint that will emphasize women impact on history itself. This became a historical event that marked the beginning for all women accessing equality in a world defined by men.