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Women’s Suffrage

Women’s Suffrage. Background. Seneca Falls Convention : First national women's rights convention in 1848 The National Woman Suffrage Association: fought for a constitutional amendment for suffrage The American Woman Suffrage Association: worked to win voting rights on the state level.

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Women’s Suffrage

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  1. Women’s Suffrage

  2. Background • Seneca Falls Convention: First national women's rights convention in 1848 • The National Woman Suffrage Association: fought for a constitutional amendment for suffrage • The American Woman Suffrage Association: worked to win voting rights on the state level. • 1890, Wyoming becomes first state to grant women suffrage

  3. Suffragettes • Major women’s rights activists, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, never lived to see women vote • Carrie Chapman Catt led suffrage movement into the 20th century and helped push states to grant suffrage • Alice Paul organized a march on Washington D.C. of 5,000 women in 1913

  4. 19th Amendment • 1918, Pres. Woodrow Wilson supported the amendment, the house passed it, but the senate did not • At the mid-term elections many anti-suffrage senators lost their seats • August 1920, Tennessee votes to ratify the 19th amendment making it the 36th state to do so • 19th amendment becomes part of constitution in 1920

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