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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
Suffrage (cont.)
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• On August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment went into effect.
Suffrage (cont.)
Woman Suffrage, 1869–1920