Womans Suffrage

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Womans Suffrage
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Origins

• Womans rights movement began in early 1800s.
• Rooted in benevolence movement
• Early leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy
  Stone, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony
• Seneca Fall Convention of 1848
• Declaration of Sentiments

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Suffrage and Temperance

• 14th Amendment spurs controversy
• 1869, suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
  Susan B. Anthony create National Woman Suffrage
  Association (NWSA)
• American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)
• Womans Crusade against alcohol joins with
  Prohibition Party
• 1874, Womans Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

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Frances Willard

• President of WCTU in 1879
• New direction
• From religious to political
• Involved in labor issues
• Cult of domesticity
• Protection of home and family

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Votes for Women

• WCTU strongest womans organization in the nation
• 1890, National American Woman Suffrage
  Association (NAWSA)
• WCTUs home protection
• Womans suffrage a reality in some states
• Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Utah
• Working toward a constitutional amendment

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Alice Paul

• Joined NAWSA in 1912
• Quaker social worker
• Militant suffragette in England
• 1916, National Suffrage Party
• 1917, Paul and associates picketed the White
  House
• Arrest and hunger strike in prison

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Carrie Chapman Catt

• 1915, became president of NAWSA
• winning plan
• 2 million members
• Republican Party endorses womens suffrage in
  1916
• 1919, Nineteenth Amendment passes Congress
• 1920, ratified by states

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Arguments Against Suffrage

• Abolition of male sphere
• Women trying to be like men
• Southern states revive question of African
  American suffrage
• 18th Amendment passed without womans vote

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