Votes for Women

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Votes for Women

• The Fight for Suffrage 1848-1920

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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."

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton1815-1902

• Organized the convention
• National Womans 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."

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The Declaration of Sentiments

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

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A Man Steps Up

• All resolutions passed unanimously at Seneca
  Falls except
• WOMENS SUFFRAGE
• Not until Frederick Douglass spoke were people
  willing to pass the resolution demanding womens
  suffrage
• Suffrage is the power to choose rulers and make
  laws, and the right by which all others are
  secured.

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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!
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The Movement Expands

• Conventions held frequently from 1850 to the
  Civil War
• Womens suffrage became central issue

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Susan B. Anthony1820-1906

• Schoolteacher
• Abolitionist
• Marriage enchained, and children doubled the
  chains.
• Howard Zinn

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Lucy Stone1818-1893

• Abolitionist
• "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."

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The Split1869

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

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The Women Step It Up1872

• Anthony and others vote in the Presidential
  election!
• Supreme Court declares that states may decide on
  the issue of womens suffrage

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The Reconciliation1890

• Stanton and Anthony reunite w/ Stoneand form the
  National American Womans Suffrage Association
  (NAWSA)

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Where do they begin?

• The American Westwhy there?
• Wyoming leads the way!

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Carrie Chapman Catt1859-1947

• Traveled to CO
• Politically savvy
• Labor unions
• Womens Christian Temperance Union

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The Opposition

• Massachusetts Association Opposed to Suffrage for
  Women
• Saloon owners
• Factory owners

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Suffrage for Black Women?

• Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
• Southern resistance
• Hypocrisy?

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Harriot Blatch1856-1940

• Daughter of Stanton
• Introduces new tactic
• SUFFRAGE PARADES

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The 2nd Split1914

• Alice Paul (radical)
• National Womans Party (rivals NAWSA)

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Alice Paul and the Iron-Jawed Angels

• Susan B. Anthony Amendment
• In Your Face Methods of Protest
• Arrested for Obstructing Traffic
• Hunger Strikes

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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