Post on 29-Dec-2015
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Women’s Suffrage
•First states to allow: Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Idaho
•Why would it be the western states?
Women in the states
•Many western and mid-western states began allowing women to vote in state elections, but not federal. Why?
•Why would it take longer for eastern states to allow suffrage?
Wilson’s Reaction
•Wilson told Alice Paul (suffragette) and others that he supported women’s suffrage; however, he did not support a Constitutional Amendment
•Did he really support them then?
Finally, the 19th Amendment
•Passed in 1919•Guaranteed women the right to vote•Doubled the pool of eligible voters
Women and Prohibition
•The Temperance movement sought to ban the use of alcohol
•Women comprised the key component of this movement▫Women’s Christian Temperance Union
(WCTU)
Important Ladies•Frances Willard
▫Led WCTU▫Also fought for federal
aid in education, free school lunches, labor unions, 8-hour work day, sanitation departments, national transportation, anti-rape laws, protections against child abuse
Important Ladies
•Carrie Nation▫Extremist member of the
Temperance movement▫Believed she was doing
God’s will by destroying bars
▫“Demon rum”▫Went by Carry A. Nation
Dude, it’s a tomahawk… and a Bible…