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CLASS VOTE: MOVIE BEFORE THANKSGIVING BREAK

CLASS VOTE: MOVIE BEFORE THANKSGIVING BREAK. Captain America: The First Avenger Trailer. Monte Carlo Trailer. Class Vote Reflection. How did the class vote make you feel? Did you think the class vote was fair? Why or why not? Why is the right to vote important?. Learning Targets.

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CLASS VOTE: MOVIE BEFORE THANKSGIVING BREAK

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  1. CLASS VOTE: MOVIE BEFORE THANKSGIVING BREAK Captain America: The First Avenger Trailer Monte Carlo Trailer

  2. Class Vote Reflection • How did the class vote make you feel? • Did you think the class vote was fair? Why or why not? • Why is the right to vote important?

  3. Learning Targets • Describe the origins of the Women’s Suffrage Movement • Compare and contrast the goals and methods of NAWSA and NWP. • Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAWSA and the NWP’s tactics in the fight for women’s suffrage.

  4. Women’s Suffrage Movement

  5. Suffrage: the right to vote

  6. July 1848: Seneca Falls Convention • Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott • Abolitionists fought for women’s rights • Declaration of Sentiments was written • Goals: education, property and voting rights “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal…” from the Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

  7. 14th and 15th Amendments • Citizenship/voting rights for men only

  8. 1872: Susan B. Anthony votes • Arrested for illegally voting • Supreme Court decided that states can deny women the right to vote NOTE: Anthony challenged 14th amendment w/ 15 others 1871-1872: Tested 150 times “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.” Susan B. Anthony on her arrest for illegal voting, 1872

  9. 1874: WCTU formed • Women’s Christian Temperance Union • Fought for temperance (no alcohol) & suffrage • Wanted vote to ”protect” the family

  10. White Board Time!!! • Would you pair together the goals of temperance (banning alcohol) and women’s suffrage? Why or why not?

  11. 1890: NAWSA formed • Nat’l American Women Suffrage Association • Led by Stanton and Anthony • “state by state” strategy • Some success in Western states • Wyoming • - even female gov. • Colorado • Idaho • Utah

  12. March 3, 1913: March on Washington

  13. 1913: NWP formed • Nat’l Women’s Party • Led by Alice Paul • Wanted Constitutional Amendment • Supported militant tactics

  14. NWP’s “Silent Sentinels”

  15. "The time has come to conquer or submit for there is but one choice we have made it." Alice Paul, the night before her arrest

  16. NWP member in Prison, sentenced to 6mths. 200 arrested for “disturbing the peace”

  17. White Board Time ! ! ! • Describe the difference between the NAWSA and NWP. • Which group would you have joined? Why?

  18. Opposition to Women’s Suffrage • Liquor Lobby: feared it would lead to Prohibition (no alcohol) • Industrialists: feared labor reforms • Belief women’s place was in the home New York Tribune “Women’s vote would lead to divorce”

  19. 1920: 19th Amendment passed! Women can vote! • NAWSA and NWP joined forces • Prohibition already passed • Women helped in WWI war effort, so more Congressmen supported

  20. Women celebrate getting the vote in New York!

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