ACTIVITY
 Take out the card in your envelope take one minutes to set up
shop if your card says so. Take a minute to consider your
thought if you need a service based on your card.
 Those who provide a service can stay at your desk
 Those who need a service go to the respective service.
 Discussion
WOMEN’S
SUFFRAGE
Formation of a Democracy
What is Democracy?
Who is allowed to participate in a Democracy?
OBJECTIVES
 Understand the importance for citizens to vote
 Understand the timeline in which women won the vote
 Understand how Democracy has evolved through women’s
suffrage
VOCABULARY
 Suffrage
 Enfranchising
 Abolitionists
 Civil disobedience
 Textile
 Lobbying/lobbies
 Bloomer
 Temperance
 Postbellum
 Poll tax
 Emancipated
 Grandfather clause
 Gerrymandering
STATUS OF WOMEN IN
FORMING CONSTITUTION
 Abigail Adams- urges husband to “Remember the ladies when
forming the constitution.
 Rights were reserved for property owning men.
 “As suffragists understood so well, voting rights symbolized more than the
opportunity to cast a ballot for a favored candidate. The vote invoked a wider
universe that defined an individual not as man or woman but as citizen”
•
Ellen Fitzapatrick
CHANGE OF MIND
 Why would women begin to question their status?
• South
• North
 What changes were happening in the U.S. to harbor question?
 Less structured towns
 Religious freedoms
 Inventions
INVENTIONS &
INNOVATIONS
 1814 power driven loom
 1803 Louisiana Purchase opened westward expansion
• Left women to do lots of hard labor
• Women ran farms, shops, households
 Industrial development
• Textiles, factories, steel,
• Development of cities
 Education reform
• Women could be better mothers and wives if they were educated
• People could be better workers it they had eductation
OPPOSING VIEWS
 Women had smaller brains
 Women’s work was in the home—Sphere of women
 Women were property of husband
 Religious beliefs that women were to be punished for sins of Eve
 Women needed to be protected and cherished
MORE OPPOSING VIEWS
 http://www.johndclare.net/women_debate_1912.htm#Mr%20Ha
rold%20Baker
•
Debate for and against suffrage for women
 http://jwa.org/primarysources/orgrec_08_detail.html
• Grace Saxon Mills, writing in the years before 1914
 http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_ArgumentsAgainst.htm
• National Association OPPOSED to Woman Suffrage
TIMELINES TO CONSIDER
 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html
 http://dpsinfo.com/women/history/timeline.html
 http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/voting.html
ACTIVITY
 In groups of four (gender diverse) consider the timelines and make
you own timeline with the 10-15 most important events.
 Be ready to discuss the 10-15 your group chose and why
• Factory can be positive or negative
TAKE AWAY
 What can we take away from this timeline?
 Next Class we will add people to these timelines
 Count off by four
• Read handout in jigsaw fashion for homework
• Everyone will read first section then one will read text section and so
on.
 Spend the next four minutes writing in journal
• How would today be different if women did not win Suffrage
SOURCES AND RESOURCES
NEW LESSON
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
 What are some of the reasons women began to question their
voting rights?
OBJECTIVES
LEADING LADIES
 Started out wanting education