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Madison Bolinger, Vanessa Fajardo, Aureliana Foster

White

AP English Language Composition

15 December 2020

Vanessa

Who: Women activist from different areas who included Susan B. Anothony and Lucy Stone
(History.com) .
What: Many American women wanted to seek the right to vote (Women who fought for the
vote).
When: Late 1840s to 1920s (Miller)
Where: United States (Miller)
Why: They wanted equal rights as other people who could already vote and felt the need of
having the same responsibility of being an American citizen (Women who fought for the vote).
How: Many people had to sign many petitions, marched in parades, and did many speeches to
convince the American government to allow women to vote (Women who fought for the vote).

Need to find-

• Points Thoreau made (3 quotations)

• Information that connects Women Suffrage Movement to Thoreau ideologies

o Along with primary information.

Game Plan-

Thursday night each person find one quote from Thoreau that highlights one of his beliefs of

what civil disobedience is (try not to overlap ideas)

Over the weekend find evidence and primary information of the Women Suffrage Movement

that could connect to Thoreau’s points.

Monday we write key words on the slides

After break: We finish script and finalize ideas.

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Thoreau Quotes:

- Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your

desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance,

nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. (find the page number auri and

explain it)

- Thoreau shows his view and take of prison after he spent a night there as he claims “the

story of my prisons”. “It was a closer view of my native town. I was fairly inside of it. I

never had seen its institutions before. This is one of its peculiar institutions; for it is a

shire town. I began to comprehend what its inhabitants were about” (21).

o “These pieces show that he believes that true conscience and morals exist in

prison in those who defied the government for what they believed in. The people

who put their values above the law. Prison the is no longer confining as society

views it, but freeing from the corruption of laws coming before values which truly

confines its citizens.

o Pictures: pg. 96, 99

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Women Suffrage Evidence

- Women’s Suffage in Progressive Era

o “Not all women believed in equality for the sexes. Women who upheld traditional

gender roles argued that politics were improper for women. Some even insisted

that voting might cause some women to "grow beards." The challenge to

traditional roles represented by the struggle for political, economic, and social

equality was as threatening to some women as it was to most men.”

o “By 1896, women had gained the right to vote in four states (Wyoming, Colorado,

Idaho, and Utah). Women and women's organizations also worked on behalf of

many social and reform issues. By the beginning of the new century, women's

clubs in towns and cities across the nation were working to promote suffrage,

better schools, the regulation of child labor, women in unions, and liquor

prohibition.”

- Melissa Block- On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially

took effect when Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby signed a proclamationcertifying its

ratification.

o “Yet, even after that milestone, millions of people — women and men alike —

were still excluded from the vote, as many barriers to suffrage remained.”

- American suffragist Doris Stevens,, dedicates her book Jailed for Freedom to Alice Paul

published 1920, one of the main leader s in the early 20th century suffragist movement.
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The imprisonment first started when the women were protesting with signs in front of the

White House for the right to vote when officers had been sent outside making the first 3

arrests. Later,

o “On June 26, six American women were tried, judged guilty on the technical

charge of “obstructing the traffic,” warned by the court of their “unpatriotic,

almost treasonable behavior,” and sentenced to pay a fine of twenty-five dollars

or serve three days in jail.”(95 Stevens).

▪ The women who spoke their mind and tried to improve their society for

the better quickly found themselves in a jail cell or surrounded by pollice.

They were treated as criminals even going as far to say “treasonable for

going against the imposed system, some brutally beaten for it as well as

seen with the Night of Terror when. Protesting women where arrested in

front of the capital. The government waws suppressing their voices and

demands trying to write them off as unlawful.

o “We decided in the face of extended imprisonment, to demand to be treated as

political prisoners. We felt that, as a matter of principle, this was dignified and

self-respecting thing to do, since we had offended politically, not criminally.”

(175 Stevens).

o “The two men handling her were twisting her arms above her head. Then

suddenly they lifted her up and banged her down over the arm of an iron bench—

twice,”

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Works Cited

Stevens, Doris. Jailed for Freedom. Boni and Liveright Publishers, 1920.

https://www.npr.org/people/134002977/melissa-block Accessed 14 dec 2020.

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-
timeline/progressive-era-to-new-era-1900-1929/womens-suffrage-in-progressive-era/