The Women’s Suffrage Movement & The 19th

Amendment

The Arguments

For Women’s Suffrage

Against Women’s Suffrage

Women are deprived of citizenship because they may not vote.

Women are citizens without the ballot. The government requires a different service from its women than from its men. Government is man’s work, and the home is the woman’s work.

The Arguments

For Women’s Suffrage

Against Women’s Suffrage

The welfare of children is women’s work. Why should women not be able to vote for child welfare laws?

The best laws to protect working children have been passed in states where women do not have the right to vote.

The Arguments

For Women’s Suffrage

Against Women’s Suffrage

Women are wage earners just as men are. Why should they not be able to vote on the laws governing their working conditions?

The best laws regulating the employment of women have been passed in Eastern states where women do not have the right to vote.

The Arguments

For Women’s Suffrage

Against Women’s Suffrage

Property qualifications and race qualifications have been banned, so why not ban the gender qualification?

Because gender is a distinction caused by nature which keeps men and women from being able to do the same work. Government is MAN’s work, and to vote is to be involved in the government.

So how DID women get the right to vote?

Suffragists formed a political party…

The National Woman’s Party was founded in 1913 by Alice Paul

So how DID women get the right to vote?

Suffragists marched in New York City…

New York City, 1913

So how DID women get the right to vote?

And they marched in Washington D.C…

Washington D.C., 1913

So how DID women get the right to vote?

Suffragists gave speeches…

New York City, 1913

So how DID women get the right to vote?

They held conventions…

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So how DID women get the right to vote?

Suffragists picketed outside of the White House…

1917

So how DID women get the right to vote?

They performed skits…

Washington, D.C., 1913

So how DID women get the right to vote?

They wrote and performed songs…

So how DID women get the right to vote?

They even went to jail…This is Helena Hill Weed. She was put in jail for 3 daysfor carrying a banner that said, "Governments derive their just powers from theconsent of the governed.”

So how DID women get the right to vote?

Many women were unlawfully arrested for protesting and wereimprisoned for weeks.While in prison, they went on hunger strike to bring international attention to their cause.The prison guards decided to Force feed the women, whichMade them very ill.

Alice Paul, leader of the NWP

The First Amendment

What in the world does the women’s suffrage movement have to do with the first amendment?

The 19th AmendmentThe 19th amendment was finally written

and passed in Congress in the year 1919 (72 years after the first women’s rights convention), but it was not ratified until 1920. WHY?

Because 3/4th of the states had to vote to approve the amendment. Tennessee was the 36th state to vote yes on the amendment making it the deciding state!