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1 By Audrey Kim, Joelle Feiner, and Shannon Li
Women's Suffrage By Audrey Kim, Joelle Feiner, and Shannon Li

2 Introduction -The Cult of True Womanhood: formed in the 1820s and 1830s based on the idea that women were pious, a submissive wife, and mother concerned exclusively with family and home. -National American Woman Suffrage Association: formed in 1890 by merging two suffragist groups with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as the presidents of it believing that women and men were created equal. -World War I slowed the campaign but helped them advance their argument. -Because they helped the cause during the war, they argued that they could be seen as patriotic. -Got their citizenship and voting rights equal to men

3 Important Leaders -Elizabeth Cady Stanton: president of the National Woman Suffrage Society -Susan B. Anthony: pioneer crusader for women’s suffrage movement and president of the National Woman Suffrage Society. -Amelia Jenks Bloomer: president of Iowa suffrage society and got women to vote in Ohio

4 Important Movements 1910- some Western states began to let women vote for the first time in 20 years (Idaho and Utah); more established Eastern and Southern states resisted 1916- NAWSA president Carrie Chapman Catt devised what she believed was a “winning plan”; “Winning Plan”: a blitz campaign that mobilized and local suffrage organizations with special on recalcitrant regions.

5 Connection to Jacksonian Democracy
The age of Jackson was about the common man gaining power or say in government. During this time period, women’s rights were becoming more recognized.

6 Multiple Choice 1) Susan B. Anthony played a major role in the Women's Suffrage movement but she also helped out in another movement. What else did she help out in? a. The reformation of education b. The ratification of the 18th Amendment c. The National Honor Society d. The abolition of slavery 2) The first women’s right convention in America was held in: a. Boston, MA b. Seneca Falls, NY c. Cheyenne, WY d. Jamestown, VA

7 Multiple Choice continued...
3) What was the purpose of the Woman Suffrage Society? to allow women to travel the world freely to allow women to be treated equally with men to allow women to get an education to allow women to get jobs


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