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How did the class vote make you feel?

Did you think the class vote was fair? Why or why not?

Why is the right to vote important?

1. Describe the origins of the Women’s Suffrage Movement

2. Compare and contrast the goals and methods of NAWSA and NWP.

3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAWSA and the NWP’s tactics in the fight for women’s suffrage.

Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott

Abolitionists fought for women’s rights Declaration of Sentiments was written

› Goals: education, property and voting rights“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal…” from the Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

Citizenship/voting rights for men only

Arrested for illegally voting Supreme Court decided that states can

deny women the right to vote

NOTE: Anthony challenged14th amendment w/ 15 others

1871-1872: Tested 150 times

“Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”Susan B. Anthony on her arrest for illegal voting, 1872

Women’s Christian Temperance Union Fought for temperance (no alcohol) &

suffrage Wanted vote to ”protect” the family

Would you pair together the goals of temperance (banning alcohol) and women’s suffrage? Why or why not?

Nat’l American Women Suffrage Association

Led by Stanton and Anthony “state by state” strategy Some success in Western states

•Wyoming - even female gov.•Colorado•Idaho•Utah

Nat’l Women’s Party Led by Alice Paul Wanted Constitutional Amendment Supported militant tactics

"The time has come to conquer or submit for there is but one choice we have made it." Alice Paul, the night before her arrest

NWP member in Prison, sentenced to 6mths.

200 arrested for “disturbing the peace”

Describe the difference between the NAWSA and NWP.

Which group would you have joined? Why?

Liquor Lobby: feared it would lead to Prohibition (no alcohol)

Industrialists: feared labor reforms Belief women’s place was in the home

New York Tribune“Women’s votewould lead to divorce”

NAWSA and NWP joined forces Prohibition already passed Women helped in WWI war effort, so more

Congressmen supported

Women celebrate getting the vote in New York!