The Struggle for Suffrage

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The Struggle for Suffrage

• US History
• Mrs. Housenick
• 12/1/11

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Early Political Causes for Women

• Before Civil War
• Women played a role in abolition movement
  (against slavery)
• Organized temperance movement (against alcohol)
• Eventually leads to Prohibition

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Seneca Falls Convention

• Organized in 1848 by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth
  Cady Stanton
• Read Declaration of Sentiments
• Modeled after Declaration of Independence
• all men and women are created equal
• Listed injuries on the part of men towards
  women
• After this event, rise of womens movement
  fighting for womens rights, especially right to
  vote

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Fight for Suffrage Begins

• Many women angered at 15th Amendment giving
  African-Americans right to vote
• 1890--National American Woman Suffrage
  Association created
• Lead by Susan B. Anthony
• Alice Paul organizes more radical protests
• Some states begin to grant women right to vote
• Still need for national amendment

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The Push for the 19th Amendment

• Women played key role in WWI--worked in
  factories, volunteered for military, worked in
  Red Cross
• Because of this, push for suffrage grew
• Believed women should be recognized for help in
  war
• Under Woodrow Wilson, Congress passed the 19th
  Amendment in 1919, ratified by states in 1920.