1. Women’s Suffrage
Topic 3.2

2. The National Consumers League (NCL)
Florence Kelley (1899)
Gave labels to goods produced under fair, safe, and healthy working conditions
Urged women to buy them and avoid products that did not have these labels
Pushed for reforms
Government to inspect meatpacking plants
Make workplaces safer
Make payments to the unemployed
Maximum work hour laws

3. Temperance Movement
Some felt alcohol undermined society’s moral fabric
Supported banning alcohol
Women’s Christian Temperance Movement and Anti-Saloon League
State and Local successes
18th Amendment!

6. Margaret Sanger She was 1 of 11 children
1916 opened the country’s first birth-control clinic
Very controversial at the time
1921 founded the American Birth Control League to make this information available to more women

7. Ida B. Wells Teacher and Journalist
Helped form the National Association of Colored Women (NACW)
Wanted to help families strive to be successful
Help those who were less fortunate
Well-known for leading anti-lynching campaign
Ida B. Wells

8. Women's Suffrage
For roughly 70 years women’s organizations actively campaigned for the right to vote
As the movement grew so did the resistance against it

9. Anti-Suffragists
Opponents included men and women from all age groups and income levels
Less Feminine - too masculine
Less attractive (for marriage)
Too independent
Less attentive to the home
They could be easily manipulated by politicians
Some women didn’t want to vote

11. By 1890 women could…. Buy and sell property Work outside the home
Vote in SOME states
The goal was National Suffrage!

12. Moderates State by state State level to win voting rights
Initial success mostly in western states
Survival on the frontier required combined efforts of men and women
Encouraged greater sense of equality between them
When Wyoming entered the union in 1890
Became the first state to grant women full suffrage

13. Would become the nation’s most celebrated champions of women’s Suffrage!!
Elizabeth Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
1869 Anthony and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association

14. Anthony and Stanton
In 1869-Anthony and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association
Fight for a constitutional amendment that would grant women the right to vote
Anthony-strategist and organizer
Stanton-skilled speaker and writer

15. Susan B. Anthony Founded her own temperance group
Campaigned hard to get schools to allow women and African Americans
Fought for equal pay and 8 hour workday for women
Tirelessly campaigned for women’s voting rights
Head of National Women Suffrage Association
Never married-Devoted her entire life to many causes
Susan B. Anthony

16. Amendment Tries Attempt 1: Stalled in Congress in 1868
Pushing for federal amendment proved to be difficult
Attempt 1: Stalled in Congress in 1868
Attempt 2: Stalled in 1878 until 1887, defeated
Attempt 3: Stalled in 1888
Attempt 4: Stalled in 1889
Attempt 5: Stalled in 1890
Attempt 6: Stalled in 1891
Attempt 7: Stalled in 1892
Attempt 8: Stalled in 1893

17. Amendment Tries Attempt 9: Stalled in 1894 Attempt 10: Stalled in 1895
Attempt 12: Reappears in …Defeated

18. National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Anthony served as president of NAWSA
By the time NAWSA was founded (1890) women had won many rights
Growing numbers of women were demanding to vote
Women were
becoming active in unions
Suggesting reforms
Publicizing their feelings
To these women not being able to vote seemed ridiculous

19. Leaders Lost
Elizabeth Stanton
Susan B. Anthony

20. Carrie Chapman Catt A former high school principle and superintendent
Talented speaker and organizer
Headed National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) from 1900 to 1904

21. Alice Paul Forms the National Woman’s Party (NWP) in 1917
Working for federal suffrage amendment
Paul organized a parade of 5,000 women in Washington, D.C

22. March on Washington

23. Alice Paul-National Woman’s Party (NWP)
Called for an aggressive campaign
Demonstrated in front of the White House
Set fire to a life-size dummy of Wilson (Wilson refused to back suffrage amendment)
Burned copies of his speeches
members got arrested
Went on hunger strikes

25. WWI – women do their part
United States entered World War I April 1917
Women across the country wanted to do their part
Medical work
Taking on jobs left by men
Arguments of separate spheres for women and men were forgotten during the war

26. Suffrage & Prohibition
1919 – 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
1920 – 19th Amendment (Suffrage) finally passed
Last of Progressive reforms