1. Unit 4 Day 6 (Woman’s Suffrage) Quote: “There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.” - Susan B. Anthony Focus Question(s): Why did the Women’s Suffrage Movement struggle before 1920 to achieve its aims? (Theme 2 KQ 6) Specified Content: Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Seneca Falls Convention, Susan B Anthony and the American Rights Association 1866, civil disobedience, The Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1874, The National American Woman Suffrage Association 1890, Alice Paul and the Congressional Union 1913 (Theme 2 KQ 6) State Standards: Strand 1 Concept 7 PO 2

2. Woman’s Suffrage Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were two of the early pioneers in the Woman’s Suffrage (vote) movement. In 1848 they will help organize the Seneca Falls Convention; the focus will be on equal rights for women.

3. Susan B Anthony will also play a major role in the Women’s Rights and Suffrage movement. Along with Stanton, in 1869 the two will found the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).

4. In 1874 the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was founded. The main goal of the organization was to create a “sober and pure world”. They were against alcohol and tobacco.

5. In 1890 the National American Woman Suffrage Association will be formed by the merger of the NWSA and the American Woman Suffrage Association. Their main goal was the right to vote for women.

6. In 1913 the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage was formed from a split in the NAWSA. In 1917 they became the first women to picket for women’s rights in front of the White House.

7. Activity Write down the following questions on a separate sheet of paper: 1.When and where was this picture taken? 2.What is the women’s message; what do they want? 3.What is the significance of where they are picketing? (why are they here instead of some random street corner?)

8. National Women’s Party picketing outside the White House (1917) picture by Harris and Ewing