Women's Suffrage Movement

Women's Suffrage

I can describe and compare the impact of the Progressive and other reform movements in the 19th and 20th centuries such as the women’s suffrage

I will do this by creating a Who-What-Where-When-Why foldable.

The Suffrage Movement

Suffrage is the right to vote in elections.
Suffragettes are women who were fighting for the right to vote.


Women were at the front lines of the abolitionist movement, and were fighting for voting rights since the end of the Revolutionary War.

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The right to vote in elections is called ​​

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. Women fighting for their right to vote were called ​

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suffrage

abolition

unions

ludites

industrialization

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Female Leaders

​Through their work, women showed that they could be leaders.
They faced many challenges in their fight for the right to vote.

The Seneca Falls Convention

The first women's rights convention was held in 1848.
The leaders of this meeting were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.

As a result of this meeting, the suffragist movement began, which worked to make it legal for women to vote.

Seneca Falls Convention

Multiple Choice

Did the women's suffrage movement start before or after the Civil War?

• before

• during

• after

• Women had the right to vote from the beginning of the country.

Before and After the Civil War

The Civil War began in 1861, and the nation's focus was on fighting.
Once the war ended in 1865, the focus was on ending slavery (13th Amendment) and then giving all men the right to vote (15th Amendment).
At this point, all men had the right to vote, but not women.

Multiple Choice

The 15th Amendment gave the right to vote to men and women, regardless of race.

• True.

• False.

In 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association was started.

Led by Susan B. Anthony, they wanted to pass an amendment like the 15th, but for women.

The NWSA

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Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Henry Blackwell formed the American Woman Suffrage Association.
They thought it would be better to let states decide on the issue for themselves.

The AWSA

By 1890, the two groups had joined to become the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Their goal was to pass the 19th Amendment - women's right to vote.

The NAWSA

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Match the following.

• The NWSA (National Woman Suffrage Association)

• The AWSA (American Woman Suffrage Association)

• The NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association)

Wanted votes for all American women.

Wanted states to decide on suffrage.

The NWSA and the AWSA joined together.

• Wanted votes for all American women.

• Wanted states to decide on suffrage.

• The NWSA and the AWSA joined together.

Slow State Suffrage

Women gained the right to vote in Wyoming, first when it was a territory and then when it became a state in 1890.

A few years later, in 1893, Colorado changed its state constitution to give women the right to vote.

Utah and Idaho did the same in 1896.

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Identify the first 4 states that gave women the right to vote.

(The given options are California, Texas, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Missouri, Wyoming, and South Carolina).

In 1917, the National Women's Party was created.

They were more extreme. They went on hunger strikes, marched in front of the White House, and chained themselves to gates.

Many were arrested and put in jail.

Often they were force-fed.

National Women's Party

Multiple Choice

Which of the following did the National Women's Party NOT do?

• Protest march.

• Chain themselves to gates.

• Go on hunger strikes.

• Poison enemy politicians.

WWI, Wilson, and Women

World War I started in 1914 and there were many changes.
Women helped with the war effort. They (AGAIN) showed that women were just as important to our country's success as men.

The president at the time was Woodrow Wilson, and at first, he didn't agree with women's suffrage.

Multiple Choice

During which war did women really prove how capable and necessary they and their voices were, resulting in getting their right to vote?

• the American Revolution

• the Civil War

• WWI

• WWII

However, by 1918, he agreed to support the 19th Amendment.
American women finally had the right to vote on August 26, 1920.

Suffrage at Last

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Women were given the right to vote in the ​

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1920

19th Amendment

15th Amendment

13th Amendment

1964

1870

Multiple Choice

Which change MOST affected women’s political power in the 1920s?

• Electrical appliances freed up women’s time.

• Women gained the right to participate in politics.

• More women pursued careers in the professions.

• Some women began a campaign for an equal rights amendment.

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