THE RIGHTS OF W

OMEN

G U I DE D R

E A D I NG A

C T I VI T

Y AN S W E R S

THE SEN

ECA FALLS

CONVENTIO

N OF 1848

This

conve

ntion, o

rgan

ized by L

ucretia

Mott

and

Eliza

beth Cad

y Stan

ton, w

as th

e first

at w

hich w

omen

formall

y dem

anded

the r

ight to v

ote.

THE CO-FOUNDERS OF THE NATIONAL WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

E L I Z A B E T H C . S T A N T O N S U S A N B . A N T H O N Y

THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

“May it please your honor, I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper—The Revolution—four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government; and I shall work on with might and main to pay every dollar of that honest debt, but not a penny shall go to this unjust claim. And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."

SUSAN B. ANTHONY ON HER $100 FINE

WESTERN STATES, WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE

WOMEN COULD VOTE IN THE WESTERN STATES AND TERRITORIES BEFORE THE SUFFRAGE

AMENDMENT• Wyoming gave women the right to vote in 1869, when it was

a territory, and was the first state to insist that women keep the right to vote when it entered the union in 1890, claiming, “We may stay out of the Union for 100 years, but we will come in with our women.”

• Utah, founded by members of the Mormon faith, extended the right of suffrage to women in 1870.

• Colorado and Idaho eventually gave women the right to vote as well, in 1893 and 1896 respectively.

• While women had gained at least partial suffrage in many states across the United States prior to the passage of the suffrage amendment, states like Virginia continued to deny women the ballot until 1919.

CARRIE CHAPM

AN CATT

The l

eader

of the w

oman

’s su

ffrage m

ovem

ent w

ho dev

ised a

state

by stat

e

strate

gy for

winning votin

g rights.

She w

as al

so an

advo

cate

for in

ternati

onal

peace

, and w

orked

to en

d Worl

d War

I alon

g with

other

pacifists

.

SUFFRAGISTS

• People who worked for women’s right to vote. Although many of the people involved with the woman’s suffrage movement were women, there were plenty of men who advocated for women gaining the right to vote.

• Many women who became involved with the woman’s suffrage movement during the early 1840s had played prominent roles in the abolitionist movement, the temperance crusade, or the second Great Awakening, a period during which many women found their voices as outspoken congregation members.

• Suffragists , although ostensibly devoted to equal rights for all, were not above making a few crude, intolerant, nativist, or racist comments – occasionally they appealed to voters by suggesting that if even a “ignorant Irishman” or an African-American could vote, they should be able to as well!

THE 19TH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION

Florence Kelley was a friend of Jane Addams and an admirer of the settlement house movement. Kelley, however determined to make a difference for the immigrant families of America by supervising the conditions in sweatshops and factories across the nation. She eventually became the Chief Factory Inspector for the state of Illinois – an the number one advocate for the banning of child labor in the United States.

FLORENCE KELLEY – TO BAN CHILD LABOR

THE WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION

FRANCIS WILL

ARD

The P

residen

t of t

he Wom

an’s

Christia

n Tempera

nce

Union was

Fran

ces W

illard

. She w

orked

to ban

the s

ale

of liq

uor and cl

ose th

e salo

ons.

Much more intriguing than the more traditional members of the WCTU or the Anti-Saloon League was the six-foot tall, hatchet-wielding zealot who dressed as a nun and wrecked bars and saloons by breaking up liquor cabinets and busting open kegs of beer – Carry Nation! Nation once burst in on gathering of Mark Twain and his friends, smashing up the saloon and causing quite a ruckus!.

CARRY NATION

CARRY NATION WRECKING A SALOON

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THE 18TH AMENDMENT BANNED ALCOHOL