BY: FALLON LEVINE, MELISSA HEATH, MICHAEL MITCHEL, AND ALLEN CUMMINGS WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

ORIGINAL SLOGAN Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God came from Susan B. Anthony What she told the judge at her trial she was charged with voting illegally Case dropped

QUOTES ON REFORM "I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself and there I take my stand.”- Susan B. Anthony "There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”- Susan B. Anthony

WHY THIS REFORM? The country was becoming more equal with the African Americans Women had supported the troops holding the men’s jobs while they were fighting When the troops came back, women were treated as second class people Women had no rights

LEADING UP TO IT Women started to question what it meant to be a “women” or house wife Seneca Falls Convention-1848 Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott Women’s rights convention The fight for women’s rights was interrupted a few times

LEADING UP TO IT Vassar College- 1 st women’s college Educated women= don’t need to marry Leads to independent women Leads to make social reforms 14 th Amendment: gave black men the right to vote Didn’t include women African Americans Time

INTERRUPTIONS Wars Civil War- got pushed aside World War I- intervened Helped because women got to work African American’s Time One change a generation

ORGANIZATIONS NWSA- National Women Suffrage Association NACW- National Association of Colored Women NAWSA- National American Women Suffrage Association National Women’s Party

SUSAN B. ANTHONY Born on February 15, 1820 Adams, Massachusetts Susan B Anthony and her family worked to end slavery Abolitionist movement Temperance movement Production and sale of alcohol Limited or stopped Susan was not allowed to speak at this causing her to really want to fight for women’s rights Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 published the revolution lobbied women’s rights Susan was denied to speak at the temperance women which made her want to fight women’s rights

CATT Born in Wisconsin in 1859 Chapman married George Catt He encouraged her to start fighting for women’s suffrage Catt began working for the National American Women’s suffrage Association 1892: Susan B Anthony asked Catt to propose suffrage amendment in front of congress She became NAWSA president in 1890 She resigned from presidency in 1904 In 1923, Catt published Women suffrage and Politic: Inner Story of the Suffrage movement

BURNS AND PAUL Lucy Burn Born in Brooklyn on July 28,1879 She got interested in fighting for women’s rights when she was at college at Oxford Alice Paul Born January 11, 1868 in Mooretown, New Jersey 1912 Burns and Paul started fighting for the passage of the constitutional amendment The amendment they were fighting for guaranteed women the right to vote in the United States 1913 They created the Congressional Union for Women’s Suffrage Later became known as National Women’s Party

NAWSA National American Woman Suffrage Association Represented millions of women Organized small local and state groups Hosted and participated in suffrage parades

FINALLY 19 th Amendment PASSED August 26, 1920 Women received all rights and responsibilities men do Reward for supporting war