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Chapter Seventy-Nine- All or Nothing
Chapter Seventy-Nine- All or Nothing
Ada Lovelace was a woman. Yet women were not protected from abuse, they could not devoice nor did they have much said in the way they lived their life’s. Very few women worked, got educated and for the poorer women it was even harder to meet up. Lovelace dedicated a statue to the women of the revolution in New York in 1885 and gave her *all of nothing* speech declaring that women have fought for this union just as much as men and now it was time to make things equal. The south was not pleased with this. They had already been forced to accept black workers have protection, they now believed a woman was trying to bring ruin their way of life, trying to force them to become the housewife’s while the women with no brains drove the country into the ground. There were protests by southern women and men demanding there right to life being protected. Lovelace was pushed by southern governors as well to consider not being too radical but Lovelace was not one for talking and stood by her all or nothing speech. She was not prepared to let the south win.
With a majority in congress, Lovelace passed the People’s rights act of 1887. It granted the right to devoice if both parties agreed, protected all from physical harm for partners, allowed women to seek education and more importantly established what would become the America n nursery system which would allow women to have care for their children. In making sure both sexes were represented, Lovelace had subjected some fears but some in the south were not happy. In Georgia the governor’s mansion was set on fire and in Florida two socialist members were shot. Things were heating up and Lovelace was not amused. She would deploy the national guard in order to keep order, proving to many that she would not mess around. Lovelace however had alienated some people including Theodore Roosevelt because as Lovelace preached equality for the masses, she tended to ignore the large cooperation’s growing in the abbesses of the home development department and the growing inequality between rich and poor.