The Progressive Era:Women’s Suffrage

Homework Review!!

• 1. What are three ways Progressives helped change American society?

• What is an important problem you might change within Bridgeport?

Back to Women’s Suffrage

WHAT IS SUFFRAGE?

The Right to Vote!

The 19th Amendment:

Women receive the

right to vote in 1920

Women’s rights video clip...

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFOieRHRzh8

National American Woman Suffrage Association

Important People:First President: Elizabeth Cady StantonSecond President: Susan B. Anthony who served for 8 years

NAWSA...• The first efforts to get a federal

amendment created failed so NAWSA went state by state.

• By 1896 4 states allowed women to vote• From 1896 to 1914 only 7 more states

changed their laws and allowed women to vote

• The group begged President Wilson for his help

National Women’s Party

• Went beyond NAWSA and picketed the white house.

• Unpopular with NAWSA WHY???

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G811_Ej7LiQ

Alice Paul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uW-11bHC0Q

Suffragette

A campaigner for women's suffrage willing to undertake militant action or to break the law.

EXAMPLE: ALICE PAUL

Suffragist

A campaigner for women's suffrage who believes in constitutional methods of campaigning.

EXAMPLE:SUSAN B ANTHONY

Force Feeding

• Imprisoned suffragettes on hunger strike were sometimes force fed.

• Being force fed involved a rubber tube being inserted into the throat or nose and liquidised food being poured in

President Wilson’s Reaction...

• Wilson, appalled by the hunger strikes and worried about negative publicity for his administration, finally agreed to a suffrage amendment in January 1918.

• Two years later, toward the end of Wilson's second presidential term, Congress passed the 19th Amendment

Representation of the People Act 1918

• Granted the vote to women over 30 who were also householders, the wives of householders, owners of property or university graduates.

• The Act also granted the franchise to all men over the age of 21.

Homework

• Fill in the blank parts of the timeline using your book Chapter 21- The Progressive Era

Go to...

• PAGE 671 Women’s Suffrage Map of 1919

Questions:1. Which states still did not have women voting

by 1919?2. Which state was the first to allow women to

vote? 3. Why were some states not allowing women to vote?

REFORM...

• Make changes in order to improve something

-Usually in a political, economic, or social way

Political reforms

• Anything involving government, the constitution, laws, rights

Economic Reform

• Anything involving business, money, banking, “funds”

Social Reform...

• Anything involving the people and their well being

Your Homework...

• Using page 687 in your book to help you fill in the solution side of the chart on your worksheet.

President Wilson....

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jClqznXFVE