THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

It’s about freaken time!

SUFFRAGE

The right to vote.

JULY 1848

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.

EARLY PROBLEMS WITH THE MOVEMENTWomen were accused of being unfeminine and immoral.

Before Civil War, movement was weak because supporters also supported the abolition movement.

The 14th and 15th Amendments left women out.

The suffrage movement split into two groups, which weakened the movement as well.

SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

American Woman Suffrage AssociationLed by Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe.

Believed that the best strategy was to convince state governments to give women the right to vote before trying to amend the Constitution.

The National Woman Suffrage AssociationLed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Wanted to focus on passing a constitutional amendment allowing woman suffrage.

THE MOVEMENT GAINS SUPPORT

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NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATIONWomen started to support the movement during the Progressive Era.

They started to realize that the only way to change society was by voting.

By the end of 1912, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and Kansas had granted women the right to vote.

I AM WOMAN, HEAR ME ROAR!March 13, 1913- the day before President Wilson’s inauguration, suffragists marched in Washington, D.C. to draw attention to their cause.

NATIONAL WOMAN’S PARTY

Headed by Alice Paul

Jailed three times for demonstrating for woman suffrage.

Her supporters picketed the White House, blocked side walks,

Chained themselves to lampposts, and went on hunger strikes if arrested.

NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION-(NAWSA)In 1915 Carrie Chapman Catt developed “Winning Plan”

She threw NAWSA support behind Wilson even though he didn’t support a woman’s suffrage movement, but he did support the Democratic Party's call for states to give women the right to vote.

THE 19TH AMENDMENT

In 1918, the House of Representatives passed a women’s suffrage amendment and Wilson asked the Senate to vote for the amendment.

It did not pass the Senate by two votes.

June 1919, the Senate finally voted to pass the amendment.

August 26, 1920 the states voted to ratify the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote.