The Lucretia Mott Aendment (NAWSA)

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The Era that Alice Paul lived in, the 20th century, was one where women had little equal rights and were usually paid less, even though they worked as hard as the men, among other situations where women were treated as less than men. The president of the NAWSA and Alice Paul had about the same goal in life they still did not have the same idea. Alice Paul blamed the President Wilson for the women lack of freedoms when I came to voting. On the other hand the NAWSA approved of President Wilson and recognized the Democratic Party as their allies. Which caused a rift between Alice Paul’s party and the NAWSA in the year of 1914 when they left the NAWSA, and in 1916 they formed the new group called the National Women’s Party. The Equal Rights Amendment was not always called or known as the Equal Rights Amendment. The Equal Rights Amendment was founded by …show more content…

The “Lucretia Mott Aendment” was named by Alice Paul, and she was also the writer of the Lucretia Mott Aendment”. Although years later The Lucretia Mott Aendment” was renamed to be called or known as the Equal Rights Amendment in the year of 1943. The Equal Rights Amendment made it very clear that equal rights were to be given to men and women in the United States, and any other place under the United States Jurisdiction. But it was not yet passed by the Congress, and it was not passed by the congress till 1972. Although it was not for the lack of not trying in passing the Equal right Amendment, because from the year of 1923 to 1972 when it was finally passed the Equal rights Amendment was mentioned at every session with the Congress. The Republicans and the Democrats both adopted the Equal Rights Amendments their platforms throughout the 1940’s. “During the 1940s, both the Republicans and Democrats added the ERA to their party platform” (The History of the Equal Rights

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