The Women's Suffrage Movement

The Women's Suffrage Movement

A fight for the vote

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The Women's movement emerges from abolition

The Civil War (1861) Abolition encourages Women

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“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. ... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”―Susan B. Anthony

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1920

Women gained the right to vote in _______ __________ was the largest convention for women's suffrage!

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The first national suffrage organizations were established in 1869 when two competing organizations were formed, one led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the other by Lucy Stone and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. After years of rivalry, they merged in 1890 as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) with Anthony as its leading force. The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), which was the largest women's organization at that time, was established in 1873 and also pursued women's suffrage, giving a huge boost to the movement

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The Women's Suffrage Movement sparked a national fight for not just women's rights, but human rights as well.

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Reflect on what you have learned and prepare THREE sentences. These sentences should include 1 fact, 1 opinion, and 1 person you found interesting.

The 1900's awakened a more "radical" perspective of Women and Suffrage.

The 1800's women's movement also focused on temperance