Women's Suffrage

What two groups lead the women's suffrage movement?

National Women's Suffrage Association & American Women's Suffrage Association

The type of protests which take place in support of women's suffrage

Picketed the White House, Organized mass marches, and held hunger strikes in prison after getting arrested. In 1913, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were the first to picket the White House.

Which president gives support to the women's suffrage movement?

President Thomas Wilson

What was the Seneca Falls Convention for?

Wanted men and women to be treated equally. Voting rights for women. Abolition of slavery.

Define Women's Suffrage

Women's suffrage is the women's right to vote. Women do not get the right to vote until 1920, with the passage of the 19th Amendment.

First state to allow women to vote?

Wyoming (1869)

American Women's Suffrage Association goal

Focused on Amending each individual state's constitution to allow women to vote.

Nationals Women's Suffrage goal

Focused on getting a Constitutional Amendment allowing women to vote.

What is the Seneca Falls Convention?

(1848) The first time an organized group decides to fight for women's right to vote.

Which Constitutional amendment allows women the right to vote?

19th Amendment