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Empowering Women: The Suffrage Movement in the United States

Explore the journey of the Women's Suffrage Movement in the U.S. from the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 to the passing of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Led by influential figures like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Alice Paul, women battled for their right to vote, facing challenges and opposition from the liquor lobby, industrialists, and traditional gender roles. Witness the perseverance, resilience, and determination of these trailblazers as they fought for equality and paved the way for future generations of women to participate in shaping their country's future.

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Empowering Women: The Suffrage Movement in the United States

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  1. Women's Suffrage Movement

  2. Suffrage: the right to vote

  3. July 1848: Seneca Falls Convention • Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott •  Abolitionists fought for women’s rights •  Declaration of Sentiments written “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal…” from the Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

  4. 1868-1870: 14th and 15th Amendments • Citizenship/voting rights for men only

  5. 1872: Susan B. Anthony votes •  Arrested for illegal voting • Supreme Court decides states can deny women the vote “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.” Susan B. Anthony after her arrest for illegal voting, 1872

  6. 1874: WCTU formed • (Women’s Christian • Temperance Union) • Fought for temperance and suffrage • Wanted vote to protect families

  7. 1890: NAWSA formed • (Nat’l American Woman Suffrage Assoc.) •  Led by Stanton and Anthony • State by state strategy • Some Western states give women the vote From Arizona, 1912

  8. March on Washington

  9. 1913: NWP formed • (National Woman’s Party) • Alice Paul leader • Wanted Constitutional Amendment

  10. NWP’s “Silent Sentinals”

  11. "The time has come to conquer or submit for there is but one choice - we have made it." Alice Paul, the night before her arrest

  12. NWP member in Prison, sentenced to 6mths.

  13. Opposition to Women’s Suffrage: • Liquor Lobby: feared it would lead to Prohibition • Industrialists: feared women would support labor reforms • Belief that women belong in the home

  14. 1920: 19th Amendment passed •  NAWSA and NWP joined forces •  Prohibition already passed • Women helped in war effort, so many Congressmen supported it

  15. Women celebrate getting the vote!

  16. Some of the first women vote!

  17. NWP and Alice Continue Fight • December 1920: proposed ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)

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