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Women’s Suffrage

Explore the evolution of women's roles throughout US history and their impact on societal involvement. Learn about different perspectives on women's political involvement, the significance of individual women in the suffrage movement, and the relationship between women's rights and other social movements. Discover lessons from the suffrage movement to address modern societal problems.

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Women’s Suffrage

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  1. Women’s Suffrage

  2. How did ideas about women’s roles evolve throughout United States history, and what impact did these ideas have on women’s involvement in society? What were some different points of view regarding women’s political involvement in the 19th and early 20th centuries? How significant were the actions of individual women in the women’s suffrage movement? Why did these women become involved? What was the relationship between the women’s rights movement and other social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries? What lessons might we learn from the women’s suffrage movement to help solve societal problems today and in the future? Essential Questions

  3. Women in Colonial Times: Indentured Servitude • Most early colonial women came as indentured servants • Required to work for several years • Difficult labor • Frequently mistreated A certificate of indenture

  4. Women in Colonial Times:The Early Years • Performed traditional household roles • Partnered with their husbands in farm work • Risked early death • Typically remarried if widowed • Legally inferior to men

  5. Women in Colonial Times:The Second Generation and Beyond • Sons did more of the farm work • New trades for men • Growth of towns and cities • A return to more traditional roles and less equality for women

  6. Women in Colonial Times:Religious Attitudes • Puritanism was dominant in New England • women’s propensity toward “unacceptable” behavior • The Salem Witch Trials Illustration depicting the Salem Witch Trials

  7. Women in the American Revolution • Active support roles • A few assumed military roles: • Deborah Sampson • Molly Corbin • “Molly Pitcher” • Mercy Otis Warren “Molly Pitcher” in action

  8. Mary Wollstonecraft • Argued in favor of equal education for women and men • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Felt women and men should be subject to the same moral expectations • Often considered one of the earliest feminist writings

  9. “Republican Motherhood” • Women’s new role to spread republican values to their children • Sons expected to grow up to be strong and virtuous leaders • Daughters would grow up to raise similarly civic-minded children • Early precursor to increased women’s education and women’s rights

  10. Abigail Adams: “Remember the Ladies” • Letter to her husband, John Adams • Asked him to “Remember the Ladies” in the new laws of the land • Consistent with “Republican Motherhood”

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