How successful were women in advocating change during the Progressive Era?
1848- Seneca Falls Convention- Start of the Women’s Rights Movement Carrie Chapman Catt A. Devised a plan to win suffrage state by state. Slowly, the efforts of Catt and other suffragists succeeded. More and more states in the West and Midwest gave women the vote.
II. Alice Paul A. Took strong methods to achieve suffrage. 1 II. Alice Paul A. Took strong methods to achieve suffrage. 1. Picketed at the White House 2. Was arrested, went on a hunger strike in jail. Prison officials tried to force feed the women in jail.
1. In what region of the country did women gain equal suffrage first? 2. Why do you think this was the case? 3. What was unusual about New York?
III. Finally, in 1920, Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO70ZjZ0wrw