Women’s Suffragist Movement

1840-1890

Important Leaders

Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton Paulina Wright Davis Clara Barton Dorothea Dix Sally Tompkins Amelia Jenks Bloomer

Susan B. Anthony

She was a founder or cofounder of: Daughters of Temperance Women’s Loyal League-

1863 National Woman Suffrage

Association- 1869 Arrested for trying to vote in

Rochester, NY- 1872

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Organized Seneca Falls Convention in NY 1848

President of National Woman Suffrage Association and then National American Women Suffrage Association

Wrote Eighty Years and More and The Woman’s Bible

Paulina Wright Davis

Opened up medical field to women

Founded Una the first women’s right paper- 1853

Wrote A History of the National Women's Rights Movement published in 1871

Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix & Sally Tompkins

Nurses during the Civil War

Made nursing a respected job for women even after the war

Sally Tompkins- given the rank of captain in the Confederate Army for her work

Amelia Jenks Bloomer

She launched a new fashion (bloomers) which were designed by Elizabeth Smith Miller

She founded and edited the Lily which was an influential women’s magazine

Wrote about Iowa’s suffrage in History of Woman Suffrage (1881-1886)

Seneca Falls Convention- 1848

First Women’s Suffragist Convention Created Declaration of Sentiments Speaker- Lucretia Mott Lead to National Women’s Rights

Convention in 1851 in Worchester, Massachusetts

Some Important Events

1844- Lowell Female Labor Reform Association (LFLRA) first labor union for women

1852- Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin

1859- rubber was successfully produced, now condoms were available for women and they no longer had to be burdened by motherhood

1874- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is founded by Annie Wittenmyer

Civil War

Women got initiated into the workforce 500 government jobs for women Became nurses, impersonated soldiers, even spy

missions Was beneficial to women’s self esteem and let them

improve their organizational skills

13th, 14th, 15th Amendment

Women had fought to end slavery in hopes that it would lead to them getting the vote.

15th amendment didn’t include women getting to vote many were outraged

Women’s Gains

More membership in Women’s Clubs

The right to vote in many states, Wyoming allowed indiscriminate vote in 1869

More independent, such as the “Gibson Girls”

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