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ON your desk:
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Chromebook: We will be adding notes to the
PROGRESSIVE ERA notes you started last week.
REMINDER:
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All late/missing/absent work is due FRIDAY, which is the end of the 1 st quarter!
HOMEWORK:
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Read article: Women’s Suffrage Movement
Summary
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Complete the Story Plot Organizer with information from the article

Suffrage Vocabulary- Class Review
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Abolition
Amendment
Appeal
Ballot
Domestic
Enfranchisement
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Feminism
Grassroots Campaign
Lobbying
Sentinel
Suffrage
Ratify

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Division between work and home

Portrayed the ideal woman as:
• Pious
• Pure
• Domestic
• Submissive

Women's Equality in Britain
Mary Wollstonecraft in the 1750s:
• Equal education
• Equal voting rights

The Seneca Falls Women’s Rights
Convention, 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony met to organize a convention to promote “the social, civil, and religious rights of women.”
Often called the “birthplace of feminism.”

The 14 th Amendmentadded “male” to its definition of eligible voters
15 th Amendment- Cannot deny a citizen the right to vote based on
"race, color, or previous condition of servitude”

Reaction to 14 th and 15 th Amendments
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National American Woman Suffrage
Association (NAWSA)
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Founded by Anthony and Stanton
Wanted to gain suffrage state by state

Racism created an atmosphere hostile to the participation of black women in the movement
Some African-
American suffragists founded their own separate suffrage associations.

Modernization of the Movement
The movement adopted new tactics of:
• Lobbying
• Advertising
• Grass-roots organizing
Carrie Chapman Catt, women's suffrage leader

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns
In 1913, Paul and Burns organized the National
Woman’s Party (NWP)
Alice Paul (1885-1977), women's suffrage leader
The NWP was one of the first groups in the US to use nonviolent protest.

Jan. 10, 1917:
The NWP “Silent Sentinels” began to
picket the White House.

Women’s Suffrage Passes in the House
In 1918, in the midst of the WWI, the House of Representatives passed the federal suffrage amendment
However, the Senate voted it down
Carrie Chapman Catt and
President Wilson

The 19 th Amendment
After over 70 years of struggling, the
19 th Amendment became law on
Aug. 20, 1920

Suffragists Change Tactics in Fight for Equal Suffrage
Transcript

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Carrie Chapman Catt
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Alice Paul
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Lucy Burns
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Inez Millholland
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Woodrow Wilson