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Votes for Women

Votes for Women. The Fight for Suffrage: 1848-1920. It all began with a cup of tea…. Seneca Falls Convention July 19-20, 1848 Seneca Falls, NY “A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman." Set agenda for women’s rights movement that followed.

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Votes for Women

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  1. Votes for Women The Fight for Suffrage: 1848-1920

  2. It all began with a cup of tea… Seneca Falls Convention July 19-20, 1848 Seneca Falls, NY • “A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman." • Set agenda for women’s rights movement that followed.

  3. 1848: Seneca Falls Convention • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the Seneca Falls Convention. • Over three hundred men and women attended. • Here, the Declaration of Sentiments was drafted. • The Seneca Falls Convention is considered to be the beginning of the Suffrage movement.

  4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton1815-1902 • Organized the convention • National Woman’s Suffrage Association "The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way."

  5. Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal…” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (sitting), Susan B. Anthony (standing)

  6. The Declaration of Sentiments • Modeled after the Declaration of Independence • What were they asking for? • Educational rights • Property rights • SUFFRAGE

  7. A Man Steps Up… All resolutions passed unanimously at Seneca Falls except… WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Not until Frederick Douglass spoke were people willing to pass the resolution demanding women’s suffrage “Suffrage is the power to choose rulers and make laws, and the right by which all others are secured.”

  8. Backlash or Media Flash? • Media frenzy • Declaration of Sentiments w/ signatures published all over • Some women rethought positions and w/drew their names BUT… Media attention draws the issue into public discussion!

  9. Susan B. Anthony1820-1906 • Schoolteacher • Abolitionist • Especially concerned with the right to vote • 19th amendment is named after her. “Marriage enchained, and children doubled the chains.” –Howard Zinn

  10. Lucy Stone1818-1893 • Abolitionist and women’s rights • First women to keep her last name when married. "I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.“ "A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should her's. My name is my identity and must not be lost."

  11. “Ain’t I a woman?”-Sojourner Truth, 1851 “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody helps me any best place. And ain’t I a woman?…If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right-side up again. And now that they are asking to do it the men better let them.”

  12. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell1821- 1910 • First woman to receive an M.D. degree from an American medical school. (1849)

  13. The Movement Expands • Conventions held frequently from 1850 to the Civil War • Women’s suffrage became central issue

  14. The Split1869 • Stanton and Anthony protested the 14th Amendment…why do they protest it? • Stone called them racists and established the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) that rivaled the NWSA

  15. The Women Step It Up…1872 • Anthony and others vote in the Presidential election! • Supreme Court declares that states may decide on the issue of women’s suffrage

  16. The Reconciliation1890 Stanton and Anthony reunite w/ Stone…and form the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

  17. Where do they begin? • The American West…why there? • Wyoming leads the way!

  18. Carrie Chapman Catt1859-1947 • Traveled to CO • Politically savvy… • Labor unions • Women’s Christian Temperance Union

  19. The Opposition • Massachusetts Association Opposed to Suffrage for Women • Saloon owners • Factory owners

  20. Suffrage for Black Women? • Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) • Southern resistance • Hypocrisy?

  21. Harriot Blatch1856-1940 • Daughter of Stanton • Introduces new tactic… SUFFRAGE PARADES

  22. The 2nd Split1914 • Alice Paul (radical) • National Woman’s Party (rivals NAWSA)

  23. 19th Amendment(1920) • 1918: Passes in the House of Representatives • 1919: Passes in the Senate • 1920: ¾ of the States Ratify the Amendment • NAWSA is now the League of Women Voters…

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