1. The Women’s Suffrage Movement & The 19th Amendment

2. Women are deprived of citizenship because they may not vote.
The Arguments
For Women’s Suffrage
Against Women’s Suffrage
Women are deprived of citizenship because they may not vote.
Women are citizens without the ballot. The government requires a different service from its women than from its men. Government is man’s work, and the home is the woman’s work.

3. For Women’s Suffrage The Arguments Against Women’s Suffrage
The welfare of children is women’s work. Why should women not be able to vote for child welfare laws?
The best laws to protect working children have been passed in states where women do not have the right to vote.

4. For Women’s Suffrage The Arguments Against Women’s Suffrage
Women are wage earners just as men are. Why should they not be able to vote on the laws governing their working conditions?
The best laws regulating the employment of women have been passed in Eastern states where women do not have the right to vote.

5. For Women’s Suffrage The Arguments Against Women’s Suffrage
Property qualifications and race qualifications have been banned, so why not ban the gender qualification?
Because gender is a distinction caused by nature which keeps men and women from being able to do the same work. Government is MAN’s work, and to vote is to be involved in the government.

6. So how DID women get the right to vote?
Suffragists formed a political party…
The National Woman’s Party was founded in 1913 by Alice Paul

7. So how DID women get the right to vote?
Suffragists marched in New York City…
New York City, 1913

8. So how DID women get the right to vote?
And they marched in Washington D.C…
Washington D.C., 1913

9. So how DID women get the right to vote?
Suffragists gave speeches…
New York City, 1913

10. So how DID women get the right to vote?
They held conventions…
1848
1900

11. So how DID women get the right to vote?
Suffragists picketed outside of the White House…
1917

12. So how DID women get the right to vote?
They performed skits…
Washington, D.C., 1913

13. So how DID women get the right to vote?
They wrote and performed songs…

14. So how DID women get the right to vote?
They even went to jail…
This is Helena Hill Weed.
She was put in jail for 3 days
for carrying a banner that
said, "Governments
derive their just
powers from the
consent of the governed.”

15. So how DID women get the right to vote?
Many women were
unlawfully arrested for
protesting and were
imprisoned for weeks.
While in prison, they went
on hunger strike to bring
international attention to their
cause.
The prison guards decided to
Force feed the women, which
Made them very ill.
Alice Paul, leader of the NWP

16. The First Amendment
What in the world does the women’s suffrage movement have to do with the first amendment?

17. The 19th Amendment
The 19th amendment was finally written and passed in Congress in the year 1919 (72 years after the first women’s rights convention), but it was not ratified until 1920.
WHY?
Because 3/4th of the states had to vote to approve the amendment. Tennessee was the 36th state to vote yes on the amendment making it the deciding state!