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SuffrageWhat do you see
here?Around what year
do you think this photograph was taken?
How do you think the public responded?
BackgroundStarting in the early 1800s: Women involved in
abolition and temperance movements Seneca Falls Convention:1848: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Background15th Amendment: Government cannont deny right to
vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
Why do you think Black Men gained the right to vote before women?
Perspectives: 1869Frederick Douglas: “When women, because they are women . . . are
dragged from their houses and hung upon lamp posts; when their children are torn from their arms, and their brains dashed upon the pavement . . . Then they will have an urgency to obtain the ballot equal to our own.”
Sojourner Truth:“There is a great stir about colored men getting their
rights, but not a word about the colored women … And if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.”
Before 1910:National American Women Suffrage Association
(NAWSA)
Susan B. Anthony: Introduced legislation frequentlyElizabeth Cady Stanton: Seneca Falls
Two main strategies:1. Earn right to vote state by state 2. Try to pass Constitutional Ammendment
(Needed 36 states to ratify)
OppositionStaunch opposition to suffrage existed
Many were womenBeliefs: • Women were high-strung, irrational, and emotional• Women were not smart or educated enough• Women should stay at home
– Voting would distract women from “duties”
• Women were too physically frail; they would get tired just walking to the polling station
• Women would become masculine if they voted
Opposition“But that woman suffrage tends to divorce, is plain
to all who know anything of men and women. Political differences in families, between brothers, for example, who vote on differing sides, do not promote harmony. How much more inharmonious must be political differences between a husband and wife, each of whom has a vote which may be used as a weapon against the other? What is likely to be the state of that family, when the husband votes one ticket, and the wife votes another?”
-Molley Elliot Seawell, The Ladies Battle, 1911
ProhibitionDesire to create Prohibition encouraged many
women to become activists1920: 18th Amendment
Carrie “Hatchet” NationActively opposed alcoholWomen’s Christian
Temperance UnionRaged fueled by alcoholic ex-
husband30 arrests in 10 years
“a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what he doesn't like”
“rum-soaked, whiskey-swilled, saturn-faced rummies.”
Smash ladies, smash!
The Anti-Saloon League16th Amendment 1913: Created an income taxEliminated need for liquor tax
Anti-Saloon league, led by Wayne Wheeler, united powerful politicians across party lines to oppose alcohol
Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie were all members
Used propaganda to associate alcohol with the Germans
Impact of ProhibitionOrganized Crime increased65,000 arrests cripple Justice System
Overcrowded prisonsInefficient police forces
Manufactures found ways around lawSpeak-EasiesBathtub GinBooze Runners
-NASCAR
The Movement for EqualityUsing the iPads, research a member of the Suffrage/Women’s Rights Movement
1st: Fill out the chart about their lifeInclude:BackgroundValuesEducationOrganizations JoinedGreatest ImpactsLife LessonsAnecdotesQuotes
2nd: Draw a cover for their (auto)biographyInclude:Creative TitlePictureShort description of their life (on back)
Women:1. Margaret Sanger2. Susan B. Anthony3. Carrie Hatchet4. Alice Roosevelt Longworth5. Katharine Dexter McCormick6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
NormalcyWorld War 1 brought increased tension to American issues such as race, gender, and labor
Following the war, Americans desired a return to “normal life”
Woodrow Wilson decided not run for reelection in 1920
Senator Warren G. Harding (R: OH) ran
Woodrow WilsonWilson suffered a stroke in 1919
Edith Wilson becomes de facto President while Wilson was bedridden
Wilson not fit to run for President
Warren G. Harding“Good Old Boy” from Ohio
US Senator, Republican
Ran on policy of normalcy
“America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums [ineffective remedies], but normalcy; . . . not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate [calm]; not experiment, but equipoise [balance]; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.”
“We want less government business and more business in government”