Women’s suffrage
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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