1. GET YOUR NOTES OUT FROM YESTERDAY, SO WE CAN FINISH THEM
GET YOUR NOTES OUT FROM YESTERDAY, SO WE CAN FINISH THEM. (I HAVE THREE USB’S LEFT IN COMPUTER LAB...)
Suffrage Movement
Women’s Rights

2. Women’s Rights Movement
Many women who were abolitionists (the Grimke sisters, Sojourner Truth) became leaders in the suffrage movement.
Realized they needed more rights for women

3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia C. Mott, and Susan B. Anthony
Sponsorship for a women’s suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution in Congress began in 1878…..
early leaders of the women's rights movement
Founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association to try to get women the right to vote.
The amendment was reintroduced every year until Congress finally approved it in 1919.

4. Seneca Falls Convention
Convention organized in 1848 to generate support for women’s suffrage.

5. Clara Barton: created the
RED CROSS and corp. of
Nursing volunteers
First Female Doctor:
Elizabeth Blackwell

6. 19th Amendment Passed by Congress June 4, 1919
19th Amendment Passed by Congress June 4, 1919.  Ratified August 18, 1920
Women are given the right to vote June 4, 1919.

7. Temperance Movement

8. THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
AMELIA BLOOMER BEGAN THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.
HER GOAL WAS TO CURB (LESSON) THE USE OF ALCOHOL.

9. WHY FIGHT ALCOHOL?
MEN UNDER THE INFLUENCE TEND TO BE MORE VIOLENT AGAINST THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN

10. THE 18TH AMENDMENT
PROHIBITION made it illegal to make, sell, or transport liquor in the United States!
Alcohol consumption went down 20%!
But enforcing this federal law proved to difficult and costly.
Mobsters like Al Capone became wealthy selling alcohol on the “black market.”

11. 21st AMENDMENT 1933 REPEAL (to take away) of PROHIBITION!
****The only time in US history an amendment was repealed!****
Consumption of and sale of alcohol was legal again
The amendment was
repealed in 1933.