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The Women’s Suffrage Movement

The Women’s Suffrage Movement. By: Frances López Adriana Tormos Isabel Casal Samadhi Moreno. What is Women’s Suffrage?. the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage the right to vote — to women. Women’s Suffrage and the Jazz Age.

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The Women’s Suffrage Movement

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  1. The Women’s Suffrage Movement By: Frances López Adriana Tormos Isabel Casal Samadhi Moreno

  2. What is Women’s Suffrage? • the economic and political reform movement • aimed at extending suffrage • the right to vote — to women.

  3. Women’s Suffrage and the Jazz Age • More than 80 years women were granted the right to vote. • On June 4, 1919, Congress sent the amendment to the Constitution to the individual states for approval • This approval was issued in this exclusive period- the jazz age.

  4. How it started? • School Board Elections • Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 • New York on the 19th and 20th of July 1848.

  5. … How it Started • This was a convention issued by several anti- slavery leaders • Came to question the injustice towards women in politics and economic issues

  6. Influential Leaders • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Susan B. Anthony • National Women’s Suffrage Association • Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe • American Women’s Suffrage • National American Women’s Suffrage Association(NAWSA)

  7. Women’s Suffrage • Wyoming – 1869 • Colorado – 1893 • Utah & Idaho -1896 • Washington – 1910 • Arizona, Kansas & Oregon – 1912

  8. The Amendment • " the right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex"

  9. Petition • 1914 • More than half a million people signed • Close Vote: • 35 to 34 • 204 to 174

  10. Attempts at Making the Point • The Parade at Pennsylvania Avenue • Peaceful ended in riot • Women’s Party • Hunger strike • Woodrow Wilson

  11. Later… • Equal Rights • Women will bring moral superiority and maternal instincts into the brutal ideas of politics • Less aggressive fight • women in the war effort from 1917 to 1918

  12. Finally • January 10, 1918 • a vote of 274 to 136 • June 4, 1918 • a vote of 66 to 30 • 19th Amendment

  13. A tie-in to The Great Gatsby • Tom Buchanan’s multiple affairs • Women had no voice in society • Women depended on men • Daisy & Tom

  14. Women and Jazz • Carline Ray • Guitarist • Ingrid Monson • musicologist • Dolly Jones • Trumpeter • Piano = social acceptance • Early Years • Female Bands • Stepping Up was Hard

  15. Women Today • Politics • Hillary Clinton • Jobs • Equal Rights • Music

  16. References • Page Wise, Inc, "The Women's Suffrage Movement in the United States." essortment.com. 2002. Page Wise. 27 Apr 2008. • Howze, Margaret. "Women in Jazz". NPR

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