1. American Women Suffrage Movement
right to vote = suffrage = enfranchisement

2. Essential Question:
How did women gain the right to vote?

3. Seneca Falls, New York 1848
Conference led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments

4. Before 1910 National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Big leaders: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Two big strategies:
Win suffrage state by state
Pass a Constitutional Amendment (need 2/3rds vote in Congress & ratified by 3/4ths of state legislatures)

5. Susan B. Anthony
Late 1800s, Anthony tried several times to introduce Amendment bill for women’s suffrage, but always killed in Senate.
Susan B. Anthony

6. The Next Generation Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in 1902
Susan B. Anthony died in 1906
By early 1900s many young, middle-class & working class women joined suffrage movement

7. NAWSA Led by Carrie Chapman Catt Believed in “ladylike” strategies:
State-by-state granting of vote
Supporting President Wilson
Never breaking the law!

8. Map of Women’s Suffrage Before 1920

9. National Woman’s Party
Led by Alice Paul
Believed in more aggressive strategies:
Focused on passing Constitutional Amendment
Adopted strategies from British militant suffragettes

10. Silent Sentinels Pickett White House,1917

11. Should suffragettes have continued protesting during World War I?

12. 19th Amendment Ratified 1920
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.