The Women’s Rights Movement

Hardships for women Difficult and dangerous jobs outside the home Women expand Reforms Hardships for women Difficult and dangerous jobs outside the home Expected to hand over wages to husbands, fathers, or brothers

Reformers pushed for rights Muller v. Oregon – agreed that working hours should be limited for women Florence Kelley – formed Women’s Trade Union League to improve working conditions

Working for reform at home Temperance Movement – wanted to eliminate alcohol (seen as source of society’s problems) Margaret Sanger, founded American Birth Control League Ida B. Wells, founded National Association of Colored Women – set up day care centers, among other things

Women fight for the right to vote Carrie Chapman Catt takes charge of the movement 1900 – became President of National American Woman’s Suffrage Association “Society Plan” – wanted to recruit wealthy women

Activists Carry on the Struggle 1917 – Alice Paul formed National Woman’s Party Picketed White House, hunger strikes, arrested 19th amendment becomes law June 1919 – Congress approved 19th amendment August 18, 1920 – 19th amendment ratified

Susan B. Anthony – founded National Woman’s Suffrage Association, arrested for voting in 1872

Elizabeth Cady Stanton – helped found National American Woman Suffrage Association (1890), helped organize Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Lucretia Mott – women’s suffrage activist, helped organize the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY in 1848 Lucretia Mott

Carrie Chapman Catt – head of NAWSA “The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.” Carrie Chapman Catt

Alice Paul – founded Congressional Union, more aggressive suffragist, wanted to focus on getting a national amendment passed Alice Paul

States that gave suffrage before the 19th amendment