The Women’s Suffrage Movement

1. The Women’s Suffrage Movement

2. Women Make Progress Section 2

3. Progressive Women Expand Reforms • Women wanted to do jobs outside the home that were not family related • Education helped

4. Working Women Face Hardships • Harsh conditions, long hours • Often expected to hand over checks to men • W/out education easily cheated or bullied by employers

5. Reformers Champion Women’s Rights • Key goal – limit work hours • Supreme Ct said that because of women's role as caregivers states were allowed to limit the amount of hours to work • Later became the basis for paying women less than men • Florence Kelley – helped found Natl. Consumers League to encourage people to buy goods made in fair, safe and healthy conditions • Women's Trade Union League – (WTUL)- tried to improve conditions for female factory workers

6. Women Work for Changes in Family Life • Temperance Movement – Women’s Christian Temperance Union – ban sale or drinking of alcohol • 18th Amendment – Prohibition • Margaret Sanger – opened first birth control clinic • Women healthier if fewer children • Ida Wells – Natl. Assoc of Colored Women (NACW) – set up daycare centers to protect and educate black children while parents worked

7. Women Fight for the Right to Vote • July 1848 – Seneca Falls Convention • Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Women's suffrage • Accused of being unfeminine and immoral • Physically attacked • Only way to protect children, education and family life • Failed at federal level • States could allow – WY and CO

8. Lucretia Mott

9. Susan B. Anthony

10. Catt Takes Charge of the Movement • Carrie Chapman Catt – President - Natl. American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) • “Winning plan”- lobby Congress for const. amendment AND referendum in states • 1918 – vote in NY, MI, OK • “society plan” – recruit wealthy, well educated women • Had supporters everywhere - suffragettes

11. Carrie Chapman Catt

13. 1878 – amendment proposed but failed to pass • 1900 Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Idaho granted women's voting rights • 1912 – Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and Kansas gave voting rights

14. Some women worked against NAWSA • Nat'l Association Opposed to Women’s Suffrage (NAOWS) • Effort to win vote would take away from family and volunteer work.

15. Activists Carry on the Struggle • Alice Paul –Quaker – Moorestown, NJ • Had to convince women to be politically active and recruit other women • Organized marches, lobbied lawmakers and made speeches on street corners • Formed National Women’s Party (NWP) in 1917

16. Alice Paul

17. 1913 – day before Pres Wilson’s inauguration • Alice Paul organized massive march and wanted to use protests to take action • Picketed White House, block sidewalks, chained themselves to lamposts, hunger strikes • Arrested • Considered an extreme group • 1915 – Carrie Chapman Catt – NAWSA leader • Supported Wilson in election to get vote

18. The 19th Amendment Becomes Law • 1918 – proposed – failed by 2 votes • June 1919 – Senate passed by exactly 2/3 • 1920 went into effect • Both Catt and Paul claimed responsibility