Take it to a Vote:
• Trump should drop out of
presidential race
• Girls should be allowed in
the NFL
• Public schools should not be
co-ed
Women
who fought
for the
right to
vote
20
1870______%
of college students were
women.
 Very few women could obtain high level jobs:
executives, lawyers, doctors, etc.
_________________________________
 Most women went into the professions of
social work or teaching
_________________________
reformers
 Many women became active ______________
since they couldn’t use their education toward
a career and were expected to stay at home.
 By
 Elizabeth
Cady and Susan B. Anthony started the
National
American Woman Suffrage Association
_____________________________________(NAWSA)
 In 1913 The National Women’s Party was formed
parades, pickets, hunger strikes
and used _______________________________
and
other means to draw attention to the cause.
th
19
 In 1919 the US Congress passed the _____
Amendment, giving women the right to vote.
 How
long did it take after Congress passed
the 19th Amendment for it to be ratified?
14 months
 What
was the date for the first national
election in which women were allowed to
vote? What president could they vote for?
November 2, 1920
 After
the House of Representatives passed
the 19th Amendment, what had to occur for it
to become a law?
The Senate had to pass it, and 3/4s of
the states had to ratify it
Create a banner with
a slogan for or against
the women’s right to
vote.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Increased
25 million
30 million
38 million
3 ½ times
1910-1920, 1940-1950
Price of the original Barbie in 1959
 Length of time Barbie dated Ken, at which time
Mattel announced the couple “feels it is time to
spend some quality time apart.”
 Boxes of Girl Scout cookies sold annually
 Shades of blonde Marilyn Monroe tried before
choosing Platinum
 Number of celebrities who have been on Oprah
Winfrey’s show
 Price of Lucy’s (from Peanuts) psychiatric advice
(“The doctor is in”)

http://worldhistoryproject.org/quizzes/womens_history
$3
43
years
2mil.
9
856
$.05
This massive parade consisted of no less than nine bands. It also
included four brigades on horseback and close to eight thousand
marchers. The parade was cut into sections: working women, state delegates,
male suffragists, and finally African-American women.
Someone was opening the front door
with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who
entered, a little travel-stained, composedly
carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had
been far from the scene of the accident, and
did not even know there had been one. He
stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at
Richards' quick motion to screen him from the
view of his wife.
When the doctors came they said she
had died of heart disease--of the joy that
kills.
 Explain
what happened at the end of the
story.
 What does the title mean?
 What does this story tell you about the time
period?
How would Kate Chopin feel about
modern day women?