Women's Suffrage

Alice Paul

Head of the National Woman's Party (NWP) that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority. Most condemned her way of thinking.

Cult of Domesticity

Idealized that a woman should be seen as a tender, self-sacrificing caregiver who provided a nest for her children and a peaceful refuge for her husband; social customs that restricted women to caring for the house.

Three Arguments for Women's Suffrage

It is fair and right that those obeying the laws should also be allowed to aid in making them. Laws unjust to women would be amended much quicker. It will lead fairer treatment to women in public service.

Arguments Against the ERA

It'll remove gender assigned bathrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, etc and will put women at risk. Men and women are different it would remove all legal distinctions between sexes. Will relieve anti-abortion laws and force taxpayers to pay for said abortions.

What tactics did Second Generation suffragists use to gain the right to vote?

Picketing, parades, protesting, publishing articles etc.

Sexism

Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.

18th Amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.

19th Amendment (1920)

Ratified on August 18, 1920 prohibiting any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex (gave women the right to vote).

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

Arguments in Favor of the ERA

Sex discrimination still takes place in the workplace as well as when it comes pay. The ERA is meant to give equality to ALL people not just one group or the other. It'll force people to be recognized as equal rather than equal based on their race, gender, or sexual preference.

Inez Milholland

She led the Suffrage Parade in Washington, DC, draped in white robes and riding a huge white horse. In 1916, she went on a tour in the West, speaking for suffrage, despite suffering from pernicious anemia. Her last public words were, "Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?."

Activist

Someone who takes direct action to achieve a political goal.

1920

The 19th Amendment was passed

Women's Suffrage

The right of women to vote.

Tennessee

The swing state that helped ratify the 19th Amendment.

Sojourner Truth

United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)

Wyoming

Was the first state to grant women the right to vote in 1869.

Nursing and teaching...

Was the most common of jobs for women in the 1920s.

Three Arguments Against Women's Suffrage

Women at this time did not take part in protecting the country in time of war. According to men, politics were unsuitable for women as they were feeble minded. The vast majority of women had no interest in voting.

1913

Women's suffrage parade takes place in Washington D.C on March 3.

Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments

Declaration issued in 1848 at the first national woman's rights convention in the United States, which was held in Seneca Falls, New York. The document adopted the style of the Declaration of Independence and demanded equal rights for women, including the franchise.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

(1815-1902) A suffragette who, with Lucretia Mott, organized the first convention on women's rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Issued the Declaration of Sentiments which declared men and women to be equal and demanded the right to vote for women. Co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony in 1869.

Frederick Douglass

(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer.

Seneca Falls Convention

(1848) the first national woman's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written

Equal Pay Act

1963 law that required both men and women to receive equal pay for equal work.

Woodrow Wilson

28th president of the United States. Reluctantly passed women's suffrage.

Lucretia Mott

A Quaker who attended an anti-slavery convention in 1840 and her party of women was not recognized. She and Stanton called the first women's right convention in New York in 1848

Amendment

A change in, or addition to, a constitution or law

Equal Rights Amendment

A constitutional amendment passed by Congress but never ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender. It was originally introduced in 1923.

Glass Ceiling

A metaphor alluding to the invisible barriers that prevent minorities and women from being promoted to top corporate positions.

Double Standard

A set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women.

Prohibition

A total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol

Lucy Burns

Alice Paul's partner, campaigned for 19th amendment' a fierce activist for women's rights in the United States as well as in the U.K.

Who did not get the right to vote with the 19th Amendment?

All groups of women that were not wealthy and white. (black, asian, native american, poor, disabled etc)

Ida Wells-Barnett

An early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented the extent of lynching in the United States, and was also active in the women's rights movement and the women's suffrage movement.

15th Amendment

Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or previous condition of servitude (gave African American men the right to vote).

Carrie Chapman Catt

Conservative leader of the NAWSA from 1915 - 1920 and pushed the suffrage movement nationwide.

What tactics did First Generation suffragists use to gain votes by the states?

Conventions, speeches