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Women's Suffrage Movement. Suffrage : the right to vote. July 1848: Seneca Falls Convention. Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott Abolitionists fought for women’s rights Declaration of Sentiments written.
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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
1868-1870: 14th and 15th Amendments • Citizenship/voting rights for men only
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
1874: WCTU formed • (Women’s Christian • Temperance Union) • Fought for temperance and suffrage • Wanted vote to protect families
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
1913: NWP formed • (National Woman’s Party) • Alice Paul leader • Wanted Constitutional Amendment
"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
NWP member in Prison, sentenced to 6mths.
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
1920: 19th Amendment passed • NAWSA and NWP joined forces • Prohibition already passed • Women helped in war effort, so many Congressmen supported it
NWP and Alice Continue Fight • December 1920: proposed ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)