The Woman’s Movement in the U.S.: A Study of its Ideological Origins and Political Activism until 1900

Abstract

The research aims to build a historical explanation of how the feminist movement was organized in the United States during the nineteenth century by seeing those who made its events as a social movement that carried a political ideology and trying to put it in the context of the political, social and economic changes that shaped the United States. Due to their firm belief in their moral strength, many women played an active role in religious, charitable and educational activities in order to raise the status of women intellectually and spiritually, especially in the field of anti-slavery. This sparked a dialectical understanding and even a violent conflict between religious and secular people, and the issue became political, not only about the status and duties of women, but also about issues of equality, freedom, citizenship, representation, and constitutional reform, as they demanded the right to vote to ensure the legitimacy of the political authority that represents the popular will, and the result was a long and Arduous Movement That Revealed Gaps In The Mechanisms Of Political Power.