Some Thoughts On Women’s Suffrage
The U.S. in 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo The Seneca Falls Convention The issue of slavery “movements” in history
Expanding Woman’s Sphere Context Religious duty Mothers’ societies Moral reform societies Prostitution Temperance Ten Nights in a Barroom Moral suasion
Abolition William Lloyd Garrison Female antislavery societies Risks and rewards Prudence Crandall “antislavery fairs” Petition campaign National network
Breakdown of unity Sarah and Angelina Grimke African Americans Antislavery agents Reactions African Americans Hostility Maria Stewart, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman
Woman’s Rights Seneca Falls, 1848 Network Ambivalence Declaration of Sentiments Challenges Network Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott Conventions Salem, Ohio (1850) Ambivalence
Woman’s Rights Movement 14th Amendment Split in 1869 National Woman Suffrage Association American Woman Suffrage Association Susan B. Anthony
A New Generation National American Woman Suffrage Association (1890) The California strategy (1911) National Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women
Anna Howard Shaw Carrie Chapman Catt NAWSA president from 1904-1915 Women needed the vote Carrie Chapman Catt NAWSA president from 1915-1920 Devised the “Winning Plan”
National Woman’s Party Led by Alice Paul White House demonstrations in 1917 Jail Hunger strikes
The Final Push January 9, 1918: Wilson changes his mind Jeanette Rankin “Anthony” Amendment Harry Burn August 26, 1920