Radical republicans abandoned women seeking rights after the Civil War

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After the Civil War, women for the most part were abandoned by the Republican Party. Women's rights have always been closely linked to not only civil rights but human rights in general. The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look at why this abandoning took place. The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the reasoning and events that took place that drove radical Republicans from acknowledging women's rights and why women in general, stopped supporting the Republican Party.

Introduction
The famous line from the Constitution
The democratic candidates
Weak consititutions
A very simplistic view of the American Civil War
Another aspect of the time frame
The emancipation proclamation
The women's rights movement
The core values of the modern day Republican Party
Conclusion
Works cited

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[...] so much support by women in the abolition movement promptly dropped their support for equal rights for women. To begin explaining how all of this took place, it is necessary to go back one hundred years before the emancipation of the slaves to obtain a more complete story. The society of 1750's was still highly centered on the farm. Since there was so much work required to be done around a farm, men and women had to invest there full time into the work required. [...]

[...] This reason alone sums up why the Republican party abandoned the women's rights movements after the Civil War; once they had what they wanted, they found no reason to expend the effort to support the women's rights cause which had supported them. Once the Civil War had started, the women's rights movement became much less active. The main tool used by the activists, conventions, was put on hold until after the war. It would take another war to stimulate the movement into action to finally get the right to vote. [...]

[...] The problem with this has been that for decades, women have simply wanted the right to choose when it comes to their bodies. It has been an ongoing political struggle to determine the ethicalness of abortion. On one hand, the Republican Party views it as murder of the unborn. On the other hand, the women's rights movement as well as much of the Democratic Party views it as a woman's right to choose whether or not to keep her unborn child. [...]

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