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Women’s Suffrage

Women’s Suffrage. By: Fallon Levine, Melissa Heath, Michael Mitchel, and Allen Cummings. Original Slogan. Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God came from Susan B. Anthony What she told the judge at her trial she was charged with voting illegally Case dropped. Quotes on Reform.

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Women’s Suffrage

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  1. Women’s Suffrage By: Fallon Levine, Melissa Heath, Michael Mitchel, and Allen Cummings

  2. Original Slogan • Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God • came from Susan B. Anthony • What she told the judge at her trial • she was charged with voting illegally • Case dropped

  3. Quotes on Reform • "I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself and there I take my stand.”- Susan B. Anthony • "There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”- Susan B. Anthony

  4. Why this Reform? • The country was becoming more equal with the African Americans • Women had supported the troops holding the men’s jobs while they were fighting • When the troops came back, women were treated as second class people • Women had no rights

  5. Leading Up to It • Women started to question what it meant to be a “women” or house wife • Seneca Falls Convention-1848 • Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott • Women’s rights convention • The fight for women’s rights was interrupted a few times

  6. Leading Up to It • Vassar College- 1st women’s college • Educated women= don’t need to marry • Leads to independent women • Leads to make social reforms • 14th Amendment: • gave black men the right to vote • Didn’t include women • African Americans Time

  7. Interruptions • Wars • Civil War- got pushed aside • World War I- intervened • Helped because women got to work • African American’s Time • One change a generation

  8. Organizations • NWSA- National Women Suffrage Association • NACW- National Association of Colored Women • NAWSA- National American Women Suffrage Association • National Women’s Party

  9. Susan B. Anthony • Born on February 15, 1820 • Adams, Massachusetts • Susan B Anthony and her family worked to end slavery • Abolitionist movement • Temperance movement • Production and sale of alcohol • Limited or stopped • Susan was not allowed to speak at this causing her to really want to fight for women’s rights • Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton • National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 • published the revolution • lobbied women’s rights • Susan was denied to speak at the temperance women which made her want to fight women’s rights

  10. Catt • Born in Wisconsin in 1859 • Chapman married George Catt • He encouraged her to start fighting for women’s suffrage • Catt began working for the National American Women’s suffrage Association • 1892: Susan B Anthony asked Catt to propose suffrage amendment in front of congress • She became NAWSA president in 1890 • She resigned from presidency in 1904 • In 1923, Catt published Women suffrage and Politic: Inner Story of the Suffrage movement

  11. Burns and Paul • Lucy Burn • Born in Brooklyn on July 28,1879 • She got interested in fighting for women’s rights when she was at college at Oxford • Alice Paul • Born January 11, 1868 in Mooretown, New Jersey • 1912 • Burns and Paul started fighting for the passage of the constitutional amendment • The amendment they were fighting for guaranteed women the right to vote in the United States • 1913 • They created the Congressional Union for Women’s Suffrage • Later became known as National Women’s Party

  12. NAWSA • National American Woman Suffrage Association • Represented millions of women • Organized small local and state groups • Hosted and participated in suffrage parades

  13. FINALLY • 19th Amendment PASSED • August 26, 1920 • Women received all rights and responsibilities men do • Reward for supporting war

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