Declaration of Sentiments

• http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/declaration-of-sentiments.htm

Women’s Suffrage• “It was we, the people; not

we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.”

• “The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.”

Quotes by Susan B. AnthonyPhoto of Susan B. Anthony-The “mother” of Women’s Suffrage

• Taylor, S. A., photographer.

Arguments for Equality/Vote• General Arguments

– Equal Rights•Men & Women equal•‘no taxation without representation’

– Women are Unique•Women have unique interests that need to

be addressed•Bring morality to politics/elevate politics

– Statistics•There are more white women than all new

enfranchised men

Important Figures

– Susan B. Anthony • Worked with Abolition Movement (1830-1893)

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott- Seneca Falls created individual movement in

1848 - Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments

– Sojourner Truth • Former slave delivers her "Ain't I a Woman?"

speech before a spellbound audience at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio. (1851)

Timeline

– Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony • form the American Equal Rights Association,

an organization for white and black women and men dedicated to the goal of universal suffrage. (1866)

- 14th Amendment - extends to all citizens the protections of the

Constitution against unjust state laws. This Amendment was the first to define "citizens" and "voters" as "male.“ (1868).

Timeline Cont.

– 15th Amendment •enfranchises black men. NWSA refuses to work for its ratification, arguing, instead, that it be "scrapped" in favor of a Sixteenth Amendment providing universal suffrage. Frederick Douglass breaks with Stanton and Anthony over NWSA's position. (1870)

Women's Suffrage Tactics

• http://www.history.com/topics/women-who-fought-for-the-vote

• ****Civil Disobedience*****

Opposition to Women’s Suffrage

• “…the women suffrage movement is a backward step in the progress of civilization, in that it seeks to efface natural differentiation of function, and to produce Identity, instead of division of labor.”– National Association

Opposed to Women Suffrage

Opposition to Women’s Suffrage

• Opposition– Breakdown the

family structure– Military argument

• not on the frontline– Uneducated– Deforms gender roles– Liquor Industry lobby– Women not legal

Individuals