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Suffrage

Many progressives joined the movement to win voting rights for women.

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• Seneca Falls Convention 1848: first call for women suffrage:

• Post Civil War passage of 14th & 15th Amendment:

• Why give black men right to vote and not women?

• Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton form National Woman Suffrage Association

Early Suffrage Movement

The Woman Suffrage Movement

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Suffrage (cont.)

Two organization develop with different ideas of how to accomplish goal

− National Woman Suffrage Association; a constitutional amendment

− American Woman Suffrage Association; state by state action; early successes in the new Western states

Movement as a whole lacks mass support

The Woman Suffrage Movement

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• This split weakened the movement, and by 1900 only four states had granted women full voting rights.

• In 1890, the two groups united to form the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA).

• Alice Paul left NAWSA and formed the National Woman’s Party so that she could use protests to confront Wilson on suffrage.

Suffrage (cont.)

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• In 1915 Carrie Chapman Catt became NAWSA’s leader and tried to mobilize the suffrage movement in one final nationwide push.

• Two Key events change public sentiment:

1. Treatment of jailed protestors

2. Role of women in society changes as result of WWI

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• On August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment went into effect.

Suffrage (cont.)

Woman Suffrage, 1869–1920

Why It Matters Trans

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