Women’s Suffrage

By Jackie White

Women’s Suffrage• Main Idea: As a result of

social and economic change, many women entered public life as workers and reformers.

• Why It Matters Now: Women won new opportunities in labor, education, and voting that are enjoyed today.

Objective

• Identify the leaders of the woman suffrage movement and be able to give three examples of strategies they used to earn passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Key PeopleSusan B. Anthony: leading proponent of

woman suffrage who founded NWSA in 1869 with Elizabeth Cady Stanton (became NAWSA in 1890)

Carrie Chapman Catt: became Anthony’s successor in 1900 (1900-1904; 1915)

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns: founders of the

Congressional Union, and its successor the National Woman’s Party who pressured the federal government to pass a suffrage amendment

Susan B. Anthony

Carrie Chapman Catt

Key Terms• Reform: the process of making changes to a

social, economic or political institution or practice in order to improve it.

• Progressivism (progressive movement): movement favoring changes or reform through governmental actions

• Suffrage: the right to vote

• NACW: National Association of Colored Women

• NAWSA: National American Women Suffrage Association

• NWP: National Woman’s Party

• Nineteenth Amendment: granted women the right to vote

Bellwork:

Have you ever taken a stand for something you truly believed in but that was not so popular? If so, what was the issue, your actions, and the results?

Iron Jawed Angels

• Selected scenes • Constitutional

amendment• No votes for women• White house picketing• Why vote• Woman arrested• Women march• Women recruiting

List the reasons in your own words, why the authors of the leaflet believe women should be able to vote?

In your own words why do the people who made this flier not approve of woman suffrage?

What, Dinner Not Ready Yet! What Have You Been Doing?A Picture of the future by our much married artist

What does it say on the man’s cuff?

What might this man be against?

According to this cartoon, what organization is fueling opposition to suffrage in Nebraska?

Why would liquor interest by opposed to woman suffrage?

Does the cartoonist support or oppose woman suffrage? Explain.

Who & What were back of the opposition in

Nebraska?

Backbone