Women’s Rights Chapter 5, Lesson 4

1. Women’s RightsChapter 5, Lesson 4 Mr. Julian’s 5th Grade Class

2. Essential Question • What were the effects of the women’s suffrage movement?

3. Places • Seneca, Falls, New York • Argonia, Kansas

4. People • Lucretia Mott • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Lucy Stone • Susannah Medora Salter • Susan B. Anthony • Carrie Chapman Catt

5. Vocabulary • Suffrage • Suffragist • Nineteenth Amendment

6. Women’s Roles in the 1800’s • Women were expected to care for the house and children. • Some women took jobs as teachers or in factories but most were not allowed to work. • Women in rural areas worked along with the men.

7. Women Work for More Rights • Women were granted citizenship but few other rights. • Women were not allowed to vote, own property, and their status was not that of men. • In 1848, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss a women’s equal rights movement.

8. Women Work for More Rights • The convention discussed education, jobs, and voting rights. • Women felt it was their right to suffrage, or the right to vote. • Women who worked for voting rights were called suffragists. • Lucy Stone founded the American Woman Suffrage Association, which worked for voting rights.

9. Women Work for More Rights • Wyoming led the country allowing women the right to vote in 1869. • In 1887, Kansas allowed women to vote in local elections and in the town of Argonia, Kansas voted Susannah Medora Slater as the first woman mayor in the U.S. • Susan B. Anthony also fought for women’s voting rights.

10. Women Work for More Rights • Carrie Chapman Catt worked for voting rights. • She was a teacher from Iowa when she got involved in voting rights. • Catt’s goal was to get congress to pass a law giving women the right to vote.

11. The Nineteenth Amendment • By 1912, many states allowed women the right to vote. • As men left to fight in World War One, women filled the jobs the men left behind. • With women doing jobs they had never done before, they were able to argue that they were as capable as men and should be able to vote.

12. The Nineteenth Amendment • Even though men made up all of Congress, women had made their case. • In 1919, Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote.

13. Other Opportunities • Women soon were able to go to college, even working as professors. • Women were able to enter politics as well. • Women became explorers, spies, and even astronauts.

14. Timeline • 1848 - The Seneca Falls convention was held • 1869 - The Territory of Wyoming led the nation in giving women the right to vote. • 1887 - The first woman was mayor elected in Argonia, Kansas. • 1919 - The Nineteenth Amendment was passed.