Women’s Suffrage

Movement

Alexis, Samantha,
Sofia, Valery
 Before...

❖ Why didn’t the movements for

women’s suffrage begin
earlier?
❖ Republican Motherhood
Seneca Falls
 Civil War and Women’s Rights

● Women in the war movement

- ladies aid societies
- Nursing
- spies

● Women and Slavery

- Women’s National Loyal League
- Lucy Stone
 Civil War and Women’s Rights cont...

● What do you think were the major events of the Civil War that led to
women’s growing participation outside of the private sphere? Why?

● What was so important about women’s involvement in representative

leagues for their own rights and abolitionist movements?
 The Second Great Awakening

● Women Preachers
- Harriet Livermore
- Jarena Lee

● 15th Amendment
● 1890
● 1900
 The Second Great Awakening cont...

● How do you think that the Second Great Awakening was a major stepping
stone during the Women’s Suffrage Movement?

● What is important about the provisions of the 14th amendment?

Campaign for Suffrage

❖ Votes for Women started in 1840’s but as time progressed,

it became more urgent for the women to gain suffrage.
❖ They began a different approach to argue for rights.
➢ Why did the women in the movement decide to take this approach?
Why was it effective?
❖ Suffrage swayed middle class white people because it would “ensure white
supremacy”
Movement Organizations

❖ NAWSA -- National American Woman Suffrage Association

❖ NWP -- National Woman’s Party
❖ Mainly under the leadership of Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony
❖ How has the view of voting changed over time?
fjoi

How did seeing the suffrage movement first-

hand affect the future views and actions of
Kids?
Accomplishing their goals...
 Accomplishing their goals

● Carrie Chapman Catt

1920 - Women are granted the right to vote through the 19th
amendment
 Changes on the voting
population

● Did women actually start to vote after the

amendment?
 Not for every women...

● 15th amendment & 19th amendment

● Racial superiority and barriers imposed
● Voting rights act of 1965
Sources

https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/women-in-the-civil-war

https://www.civilwarwomenblog.com/womens-rights-during-the-civil-war/

https://www.hillarychapman.com/blog/2017/3/29/preaching-women-of-the-second-great-awakening

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/01/21/timeline-the-womens-rights-movement-in-the-us/21659519/

https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage

https://thedevelopmentofwomensrights.weebly.com/before-the-womens-rights-movement.html

http://nwhm.org/resources/general/woman-suffrage-movement

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-long-road-to-suffrage-3530478