Women’s Suffrage

Movement

Marisa Clark, Elsa Wybrow, Kaili

Ruttenbur, & Simone Wong
HISTORY OF THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9LmBgY-F5A
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▫ Causes
▫ Seneca Falls Convention
▫ 15th Amendment
▫ Opposition of Women’s Suffrage
▫ Organizations & Accomplishments
▫ Kahoot
 CAUSES OF THE
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
MOVEMENT

▫ Subservient to men & relied on them

▫ Couldn’t own property
▫ Couldn’t vote
▫ Inequality in divorce
▫ inequality in education and
employment opportunities
▫ They wanted to be seen as equal and full
citizens of the United States
 CAUSES CONTINUED...

▫ World War One

▫ Men went off to war
▫ Women took their jobs
▫ Women also took new jobs
created from the war
▫ When the war ended they were
expected to go back to being in
the home
 “
“We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men
and women are created equal; that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.”
-Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments
 SENECA FALLS

▫ 1st Women’s Rights Convention held on July

19-20 of 1848.
▫ Local female Quakers organized the
convention.
▫ Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a big influence
on organizing the Seneca Falls Convention.
▫ Declaration of Sentiments
 15TH AMENDMENT

What is the 15th Amendment?

▫ Passed by Congress on February 26, 1869
▫ Ratified by on February 3rd, 1870.
▫ Granted the right to vote regardless of race,
color or “previous condition of servitude.”

Why weren’t women included?

▫ Women were viewed as inferior to men.
▫ Women were considered “child-like” and
incapable to vote responsibly.
 THE DIVIDE?

▫ Due to the exclusion of women in the 15th

amendment, a split between women rights
activists developed.
▫ Many activists argued whether to support or
oppose the amendment.
Oppose?
▫ Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
▫ Saw the new addition as offensive.
▫ Refused to support since the rights of women
weren’t alongside black men.
Support?
▫ Lucy Stone
▫ Was disappointed that women were excluded,
but continued to support the 15th amendment.
 ORGANIZATIONS

▫ NAWASA -- National American Woman Suffrage

Association

▫ NWP -- National Woman’s Party

▫ Mainly under the leadership of Elizabeth Stanton
and Susan Anthony
 Accomplishments

▫ Carrie Chapman Catt

11 ▫ Most of their smaller accomplishments were

to bring awareness.

▫ 1920 - Women are granted the right to vote

through the 19th amendment.
 The Opposition of Women’s
Suffrage.

Anti-suffrage activists.
▫ For a while, anti-suffrage individuals spoke
amongst each other without a set organization.
▫ In 1911, Josephine Dodge founded the “National
Association Opposed to Women's Suffrage”
(NAOWS)
▫ Propaganda, Religious Leaders & Articles.
Why?
▫ Opposing supporters believed that most women
didn’t want to vote or didn’t have enough time to
vote or stay updated on political topics.
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Seneca Falls Convention - HISTORY

http://www.maryvolmer.com/the-womens-suffrage-divide-1869.html