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Women’s Suffrage

Women’s Suffrage. One of the boldest goals of women during the Progressive Era was suffrage (the right to vote). Believed it was the only way the government would protect children, promote education, and support family life. Beliefs of the Anti-Suffragists.

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Women’s Suffrage

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  1. Women’s Suffrage • One of the boldest goals of women during the Progressive Era was suffrage (the right to vote). • Believed it was the only way the government would protect children, promote education, and support family life.

  2. Beliefs of the Anti-Suffragists • Women were high-strung, irrational, and emotional. • Women were not smart or educated enough to vote. • Women should stay at home in the kitchen. • Women were too physically weak; they would get tired just walking to the polling station. • Women would become masculine if they voted.

  3. The National Women’s Suffrage Association • Carrie Chapman Catt led the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).

  4. The National Women’s Suffrage Association • Believed in taking things slow and winning suffrage one state at a time. • Emphasized acting ladylike so as not to embarrass the suffrage movement. • Supported President Wilson even though he didn’t directly support suffrage because Democrats were a safer bet than Republicans.

  5. National Women’s Party • Alice Paul led the National Women’s Party (NWP) and believed in more aggressive strategies.

  6. National Women’s Party • Focused on getting a constitutional amendment passed to grant women suffrage. • Adopted un-ladylike strategies (ex. harassing politicians, marching, protesting, picketing). • Refused to support President Wilson if he wouldn’t support woman suffrage.

  7. National Women’s Party • Once the U.S. entered World War One, everyone expected the NWP to stop protesting and support the President and the War Effort; they did not. • NWP members were arrested for picketing in front of the White House. They were put in jail, went on a hunger strike, and were force-fed.

  8. The Nineteenth Amendment • In 1919 Congress finally passed the nineteenth amendment, giving women the right to vote.

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