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Women’s Suffrage

Women’s Suffrage. The Road to the 19 th Amendment. Background History. Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 (NY) Achieved property rights for married women Access to higher education Women’s colleges formed Some integrated colleges 1870: 20% college students were women 1910: 40%. What?.

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Women’s Suffrage

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  1. Women’s Suffrage The Road to the 19th Amendment

  2. Background History • Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 (NY) • Achieved property rights for married women • Access to higher education • Women’s colleges formed • Some integrated colleges • 1870: 20% college students were women • 1910: 40%

  3. What? • Some people still thought women were inferior, however • Some even thought thinking was harmful to a woman’s health!!!!

  4. This is Progress, but …….. • STILL NO RIGHT TO VOTE (Suffrage)

  5. Women’s Roles • Many still thought a woman’s place was in the home • Have and take care of children • Inferior • Women duties

  6. College Educated Women • Still denied access to jobs, especially male-dominated professions like lawyers and doctors

  7. Why not Vote? • Women would use their right to vote to fight corruption (Politicians thought this; like Wilson) • Women voting would help pass child-labor and minimum-wage laws (Business people thought this) • Or, that women just belonged at home and not politics (some women’s groups even thought this; focus more on social groups

  8. Early Leaders who Laid the Groundwork • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Susan B. Anthony • Both formed the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) • Goal was to allow women to vote

  9. Carrie Chapman Catt • Took over NAWSA in 1900 and got western states to allow women to vote (It was up to the states at that time; although very hard to do) • Women deserve the right to vote to pass laws that affected them

  10. Suffrage was up to States

  11. A Different Type of Women’s Movement • Some thought NAWSA was too nice; lets pick it up a notch

  12. Alice Paul • Originally worked for NAWSA; but she wanted change NOW • Since she often “bumped heads” with Catt and NAWSA, she formed the National Woman’s Party (NWP) • Also helped by Lucy Burns

  13. Paul and Burns • Used more controversial methods such as: • Civil disobedience • Hunger strikes • Picketing and demonstrations • Parades

  14. Woodrow Wilson • Often ignored the women’s rights movement • Focused on staying out of war and WWI • Very bitter towards Paul, Burns, and NWP • Had them arrested on bogus charges • Felt political pressure

  15. Finally!!!! • With the help of Paul and NWP, and Catt and NAWSA, the 19th Amendment finally came to being in 1920 • Hunger strikes, political pressure, and an influential U.S. Senator’s wife in the movement got it done • Wilson had no choice and apprehensively pushed Congress to amend the Constitution (close vote)

  16. “Iron-Jawed Angels” Movie • Looks at the suffrage movement • Character Trait Analysis Guide • Hilary Swank (Alice Paul) • Anjelica Huston (Carrie Chapman Catt) • See the ups and downs of the movement • Different groups all using different means to achieve one goal = VOTING RIGHTS

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