The Women’s Suffrage Movement
& The 19th Amendment
The Arguments
For Women’s
Suffrage
Women are
deprived of
citizenship
because they
may not vote.
Against Women’s
Suffrage
Women are citizens
without the ballot. The
government requires a
different service from its
women than from its
men. Government is
man’s work, and the
home is the woman’s
work.
The Arguments
For Women’s
Suffrage
Against Women’s
Suffrage
The welfare of
children is women’s
work. Why should
women not be able to
vote for child welfare
laws?
The best laws to
protect working
children have been
passed in states
where women do not
have the right to vote.
The Arguments
For Women’s
Suffrage
Against Women’s
Suffrage
Women are wage
earners just as
men are. Why
should they not be
able to vote on the
laws governing
their working
conditions?
The best laws
regulating the
employment of
women have been
passed in Eastern
states where women
do not have the right
to vote.
The Arguments
For Women’s
Suffrage
Against Women’s
Suffrage
Property
qualifications and
race qualifications
have been banned,
so why not ban the
gender
qualification?
Because gender is a
distinction caused by
nature which keeps men
and women from being
able to do the same work.
Government is MAN’s
work, and to vote is to be
involved in the
government.
So how DID women get the right to vote?
 Suffragists formed a political party…
The National Woman’s Party was founded in
1913 by Alice Paul
So how DID women get the right to vote?
 Suffragists marched in New York City…
New York City, 1913
So how DID women get the right to vote?
 And they marched in Washington D.C…
Washington D.C., 1913
So how DID women get the right to vote?
 Suffragists gave speeches…
New York City, 1913
So how DID women get the right to vote?
 They held conventions…
1848
1900
So how DID women get the right to vote?
 Suffragists picketed outside of the White House…
1917
So how DID women get the right to vote?
 They performed skits…
Washington, D.C., 1913
So how DID women get the right to vote?
 They wrote and performed songs…
So how DID women get the right to vote?
 They even went to jail…
 This is Helena Hill Weed.
She was put in jail for 3 days
for carrying a banner that
said, "Governments
derive their just
powers from the
consent of the governed.”
So how DID women get the right to vote?
 Many women were
unlawfully arrested for
protesting and were
imprisoned for weeks.
 While in prison, they went
on hunger strike to bring
international attention to their
cause.
 The prison guards decided to
Force feed the women, which
Made them very ill.
Alice Paul, leader of the NWP
The First Amendment
What in the world does
the women’s suffrage
movement have to do with
the first amendment?
The
th
19
Amendment
 The 19th amendment was finally written and
passed in Congress in the year 1919 (72 years
after the first women’s rights convention),
but it was not ratified until 1920.
 WHY?
Because
3/4th of the states had to vote to
approve the amendment. Tennessee was
the 36th state to vote yes on the
amendment making it the deciding state!