1. The Progressive Era: Women’s Suffrage

2. Homework Review!!
1. What are three ways Progressives helped change American society?
What is an important problem you might change within Bridgeport?

4. Back to Women’s Suffrage
WHAT IS SUFFRAGE?
The Right to Vote!

5. The 19th Amendment: Women receive the right to vote in 1920

6. Women’s rights video clip...

7. National American Woman Suffrage Association
Important People:
First President: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Second President: Susan B. Anthony who served for 8 years

8. NAWSA...
The first efforts to get a federal amendment created failed so NAWSA went state by state.
By states allowed women to vote
From 1896 to 1914 only 7 more states changed their laws and allowed women to vote
The group begged President Wilson for his help

9. National Women’s Party
Went beyond NAWSA and picketed the white house.
Unpopular with NAWSA
WHY???

10. Alice Paul

11. Suffragette EXAMPLE: ALICE PAUL
A campaigner for women's suffrage willing to undertake militant action or to break the law.
EXAMPLE: ALICE PAUL

12. Suffragist
A campaigner for women's suffrage who believes in constitutional methods of campaigning.
EXAMPLE:
SUSAN B ANTHONY

13. Force Feeding
Imprisoned suffragettes on hunger strike were sometimes force fed.
Being force fed involved a rubber tube being inserted into the throat or nose and liquidised food being poured in

14. President Wilson’s Reaction...
Wilson, appalled by the hunger strikes and worried about negative publicity for his administration, finally agreed to a suffrage amendment in January 1918.
Two years later, toward the end of Wilson's second presidential term, Congress passed the 19th Amendment

15. Representation of the People Act 1918
Granted the vote to women over 30 who were also householders, the wives of householders, owners of property or university graduates.
The Act also granted the franchise to all men over the age of 21.

16. Homework
Fill in the blank parts of the timeline using your book Chapter 21- The Progressive Era

17. Go to... PAGE 671 Women’s Suffrage Map of 1919 Questions:
Which states still did not have women voting by 1919?
Which state was the first to allow women to vote?
3. Why were some states not allowing women to vote?

18. -Usually in a political, economic, or social way
REFORM...
Make changes in order to improve something
-Usually in a political, economic, or social way

19. Political reforms
Anything involving government, the constitution, laws, rights

20. Economic Reform
Anything involving business, money, banking, “funds”

21. Social Reform...
Anything involving the people and their well being

22. Your Homework...
Using page 687 in your book to help you fill in the solution side of the chart on your worksheet.

23. President Wilson....