Do Now: What do you see here? What year do you think this is? How do you think the public responded?
Women’s Suffrage 1) How did women get equal rights with men? Was it easy? 2) Why did it happen at this point in history? What changed that they now demanded equal rights?
The American Woman Suffrage Movement 1848-1920 and Muckrakers The Struggle for Right to vote! EQ: How did women obtain the right to vote? What role did muckrakers have in changing US society?
Seneca Falls, NY 1848 In early 1800s, women involved in abolition (no slavery), temperance (no alcohol) Group of men and women gather in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848 Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott Write Declaration of Sentiments
Fifteenth Amendment, 1871 Grants African-American men the right to vote Disappoints many women who thought African American men and women would be enfranchised together African Americans split over whether men should get vote before women
Before 1910 Women’s suffrage movement splits, but then unites in 1890 National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Big leaders: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Two big strategies: Try to win suffrage state-by-state Try to pass a Constitutional Amendment (but this would need to be ratified by 36 states--or three-fourths)
Anti-Suffragists: Those who opposed suffrage (many “Anti’s” were women)
19th Amendment, 1920 Women get the right to vote! Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” (Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify and it passed by only 1 vote)
Muckrakers Journalists and urban photographers who exposed people to the plight of the unfortunate in hopes of sparking reform.
Muckrakers Jacob Riis Danish immigrant who faced New York poverty Exposed the slums through magazines, photographs, and a best-selling book
Muckrakers Ida Tarbell Exposed the corrupt Standard Oil Company and its owner, John D. Rockefeller
Muckrakers Lincoln Steffens Shame of the Cities (1904) exposed corrupt city governments
Upton Sinclair Wrote a book called The Jungle which exposed the lack of sanitation in the meat packing industry