Fire in Firey Times for Sufferage

The Civil War Divisions

Women's Suffrage Before the 19th Amendment

In a period of time in which the United States was dealing with intense tension between the northern and southern states strong voices for women's rights had to be loud to be heard while everyone else who was discontent and shouting their opinions too.  In the states religion was being used to justify both sides of these issues and because the people of the United States were not yet so secularized and disillusioned with religion at many Europeans were becoming, their calls for change burned with the passion of religious fervor.  Appeal to authority from God and enlightenment ideals was a primary tactic of the women's suffrage writings I analyzed.