Women

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Womens Suffrage

• Mrs. Jones-Wagys US History Class

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States Who Granted Suffrage

• 1890-Wyoming
• 1893-Colorado
• 1895-Utah (Territory)
• 1896-Idaho
• 1910-Washington
• 1911-California
• 1912-Oregon/Kansas
• 1913-Illinois/Alaska (Territory)
• 1914-Montana/Nevada

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History of Womens Suffrage in the United States

• 1826-Movement begins with Frances Wright
• 1840-Lucretia Mott and Margaret Fuller bringing
  the movement to the public eye
• 1848-Seneca Falls Convention
• Civil War-Movement lost momentum in wartime

• 1869-National Womens Suffrage Association
• 1890-National American Womens Suffrage
  Association
• 1898-Spanish American War impedes the movement
• 1900-Carrie Chapman Catt becomes President of
  NAWSA

4
Important Figures in Suffrage

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Lucretia Mott
• Carrie Chapman Catt
• Grimke Sisters
• Susan B. Anthony
• Lucy Burns
• Alice Paul

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History of Womens Suffrage

• United Kingdom
• 1832-Suffrage Reform Act
• Expressly forbade women from voting
• Women were ok with not voting until they were
  told they couldnt
• Began about a century of fighting for the vote in
  England
• First to use hunger strikes as a method of
  rebellion

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Hunger Strikes

• Began in Ireland in about the 1400s
• The Irish would camp out on the doorsteps of the
  English landowners and refused to eat
• Eventually the Irish would die on the front porch
  of the landowners to make their point
• No one wants a dead dude on their porch because
  they were too cheap to feed them

7
Hunger Strikes Contd

• Women in England were arrested for protesting
• In jail they refused to eat
• The British government didnt want a bunch of
  dead women who were unlawfully arrested
• Began force feeding the women

8
Hunger Strikes in the US

• Alice Paul was arrested for protesting against
  Wilson during World War I
• After she was arrested she and the other women
  went on a hunger strike
• They were force-fed while in prison

9
Silent Sentinels

• Women stood outside the White House and protested
  for womens rights for months
• Began on January 10, 1917 and ended in June 1919
• Picketed everyday except Sunday for 2 ½ years

10
Women Gain Suffrage

• The newspapers reported on the story of the women
  in prison
• The women were released and returned to
  protesting for womens rights

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Final Vote in Congress

• The Suffrage movement needed a 2/3 majority in
  the Senate
• They were short by one vote the night before the
  bill was scheduled to pass
• A senator was sent a telegram by his mother and
  changed his vote to yes

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19th Amendment

• Passed in 1919 and enacted in 1920
• Section 1 The right of citizens of the United
  States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by
  the United States or by any State on account of
  sex. 
• Section 2 Congress shall have power to enforce
  this article by appropriate legislation.