Voting Rights For

Women Over Time

By Mr. Nobby
 Knowledge Quiz
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Definitions
● Suffrage: a vote given in deciding a controverted question or electing a person for an office or trust
● Enfranchisement: to admit to the privileges of a citizen and especially to the right of suffrage
● Suffragettes:a woman who advocates suffrage for women

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/
Definitions 2
● Declaration of Independence: Document utilized by early American
government to declare independence from the United Kingdom
● Seneca Falls Convention: Convention in 1848 at Seneca Falls to
discuss Women’s Suffrage.
● 19th Amendment: Amendment to the Constitution giving women
the right to vote.

Source:
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tations/elections/voting-rights-women.html
Before
● Women could not vote for the
majority of American history.
● There was little movement to
fix this before the Suffrage
Movement started.

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Early Fight
● Seneca Falls Convention in 1848
● Put on Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
● Created the Declaration of Sentiments, a document discussing the
enfranchisement of women, and was based on the Declaration of
Independence
● This created two organizations
○ National Women’s Suffrage Association (NWSA) which fought for constitutional
suffrage
○ American Women’s Suffrage Association (AWSA) which fought for suffrage on a
state basis
● In 1890, suffrage had been won in multiple states, and the two
organizations together became the National American Women’s
Suffrage
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The Vote
● In the early 1900’s, Suffragettes began to use protest and picketing
techniques. In 1910, protestors were arrested in front of the White
House for blocking the sidewalk.
● The movement slowed during World War 1, but then picked up after
the end.
● A voting amendment was proposed in congress every year since
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Activity!
Create a slide, and answer this question: Do women comparatively have
more freedom now than 200 years ago?

Put your name at the top of the slide!

If you finish this, then do some research about an interesting figure in

the fight for women’s suffrage!
Chalsey Slaughterbeck
● Yes I do think that women have more rights now then they did back
then. We have the right to vote, we have the right to own property,
but there is still so much that we don’t have. At the end of the day
women face so much stigma across all factions of their life
compared to men. There are so many issues that are still
unresolved or even refuse to be accepted. At the end of the day, we
have come a long way, but we’re not at the end of the road yet..
Arianna
I feel that for the most part women have more rights now, we are able
to vote, however just recently the Trump administration started efforts
to make women in their administrations wear skirts. Also in certain
states women still don’t have rights to make decisions about their
bodies concerning pregnancy.
Chelsea
Do women comparatively have more freedom now than 200 years ago?

Definitely yes, but women still do not have the same freedoms as white
men. Women of color have even less freedoms. We can vote, but let’s
gain full control of our bodies #get-it-girl also #equalpay
Urijah
Looking back 200 years ago, women do have more freedom now. There
is more freedom in a sense that there is a smaller likelihood for women
expressing themselves and living as their own individuals. Even as
women gained rights throughout history (to vote, to work) there were
still societal consequences. Many women were looked down upon for
establishing their lives, even if they had every legal right to do so.
Although our society is not perfect, we have progressed to a state
where women can feel more comfortable and free as they take
advantage of their human rights.
Dion
Personally, women have so much
freedom compared to where it was
before… BUT there is still such a
long way to go when it comes to
this idea. Women have freedom by
laws, but not social freedom.
Meaning that there are so many
societal norms and stereotypes put
on women by society that makes
them not free in the eyes of a
citizen.
Erika L.
Do women comparatively have more freedom now than 200 years ago?

I believe that women have much more freedom now than they did 200
years ago. We are allowed to vote, work, own property, go anywhere on
our own, decide to marry or stay single, have kids or not, etc. We have
much more independence but I still feel like we have a long way to go
to where we have the same freedom as men do. Even though we can go
anywhere on our own, many times it isn’t safe so it can be hard for
women to have the same rights and freedom as men.