Women’s Suffrage

Voting Rights in the U.S.

• By the 1830’s most states let White men vote regardless of wealth or property.

• 1868 – 14th Amendment• 1870 – 15th Amendment

What about women?!?!

Fifty YEARS Later!

1920 Suffrage Map

South-Cult of True Womanhood

True Women Are:Pious (Religiously Proper)

SubmissiveMarried

Cherishing MotherhoodConcerned Only with Home and Family

The Foundation of all CivilizationPURE, PURE, PURE!!!!!!

Better in the North?

Rule of Thumb…….

….Becomes……..

Petticoat Rule!

How about women?

Heaven, Home & Mother Crowd

Forms theNational Association Opposed to

Women’s Suffrage

JosephineDodge

The Devil in action!!!!

American Women’s Suffrage Association (AWSA)

Lucy Stone Julia Ward Howe

All We Want Is The Right To Vote!

National Women’s Suffrage Association (NWSA)

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton• Susan B. Anthony• Carrie Chapman Catt

NATIONAL WOMEN’S PARTY

Alice Paul

Alice Paul

THEY’RE RADICALS!!!

1916 NAWSA President Carrie Chapman Catt has a “Winning Plan”

Tennessee

Did not Ratify the 15th Amendment until 1997!

BUT

Allows Women to Vote for President and Other Elected Offices in Some Cities!

Representative Harry T. Burn

Febb E. BurnMother of Harry Burn

So, ultimately, women got the right to vote because…

ONEMAMA

SAID SO!!!!!