Women’s suffrage

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WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

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Women’s suffrage. Seneca Falls Convention. 1848, NY Issues : equality @ work, school & church Demand the right to vote Key Players : Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott. National Women Suffrage Movement: NWSM. After Civil War (mid 1860s) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

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SENECA FALLS CONVENTION

1848, NY

Issues: equality @ work, school & church

Demand the right to vote

Key Players: Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott

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NATIONAL WOMEN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT: NWSM

After Civil War (mid 1860s)

Campaigning for a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote

Key Players: Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

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LATE 1800’S

4 states in the west give women the right to vote

Wyoming, Utah, Colorado & Idaho

Women’s contributions in building the frontier are starting to become recognized

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NEW GENERATIONElizabeth Cady Stanton & S.B.Anthony die

New wave fights for suffrage state by state

Now Western & Midwestern states allow women to vote in state elections

Key player: Carrie Chapman Catt

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RADICAL NWSM

Avtivists for women’s suffrage meet with Woodrow Wilson, who is neutral about the concept…he does not back a constitutional amendment

Women are fed up & protest outside the White House & are arrested

Key Player: Alice Paul

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FINALLY WILSON AGREES

President Wilson agreed to support the suffrage movement

1919: congress passes the 19th amendment (women & minorities can vote)

By 1920, 75% of states ratify amendment

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WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE