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Do Now. Current Events. What does suffragette mean?. Women who fought for the right to vote. The women’s movement. 20. By 1870______% of college students were women. Very few women could obtain high level jobs: _________________________________

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  1. Do Now Current Events

  2. What does suffragette mean? Women who fought for the right to vote

  3. The women’s movement 20 • By 1870______% of college students were women. • Very few women could obtain high level jobs: _________________________________ • Most women went into the professions of _________________________ • Many women became active ______________ since they couldn’t use their education toward a career and were expected to stay at home. executives, lawyers, doctors, etc. social work or teaching reformers

  4. Votes For Women • Elizabeth Cady and Susan B. Anthony started the _____________________________________(NAWSA) • In 1913 The National Women’s Party was formed and used _______________________________ and other means to draw attention to the cause. • In 1919 the US Congress passed the _____ Amendment, giving women the right to vote. National American Woman Suffrage Association parades, pickets, hunger strikes 19th

  5. Look at the Timeline on page 676-677 • How long did it take after Congress passed the 19th Amendment for it to be ratified? • What was the date for the first national election in which women were allowed to vote? • After the House of Representatives passed the 19th Amendment, what had to occur for it to become a law? 14 months November 2, 1920 The Senate had to pass it, and 3/4s of the states had to ratify it

  6. Create a banner with a slogan for or against the women’s right to vote.

  7. Women in the Workplace worksheet

  8. Do Now Imagine you are living in 1908. Write a journal entry about your day…work, school, protests, etc. Share.

  9. This massive parade consisted of no less than nine bands. It also included four brigades on horseback and close to eight thousand marchers.  The parade was cut into sections: working women, state delegates, male suffragists, and finally African-American women.

  10. The Story of an Hour By Kate Chopin Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife. When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills. 

  11. Finally… What does this story tell you about the time period?

  12. Pick out at least five phrases which you think are especially important to the story . Briefly describe why you chose each.What questions about character or motivation or plot does this story leave in your mind? If time remains…

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