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Chapter 19, Section 3 “The Rights of Women”
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Vocabulary Terms 1.Carrie Chapman Catt- (pg. 657) 2.suffragist- (pg. 657) 3.Alice Paul- (pg. 658) 4.Frances Willard- (pg. 659) 5.prohibition- (pg. 659)
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Seneca Falls Convention- (1848) 1.Importance- Marked the start of an organized women’s rights movement in the United States.
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National Women’s Suffrage Association 1. Goal- Passage of a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. 2. Founders- Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony. 3. In 1872, Susan B. Anthony was arrested for trying to vote and was put on trial.
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What does this quote mean? “My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject.”- Susan B. Anthony
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Western States By the late 1800s, women won voting rights in four western states: 1.Wyoming 2.Utah 3.Colorado 4.Idaho These states recognized women’s contributions
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Increased Support For Women 1. More women worked outside the home and demanded a say in making laws. 2. New Leaders- Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul. 3. Devised a detailed strategy to win suffrage state by state.
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Nineteenth Amendment Ratified: 1920 What It Did- gave women the right to vote. Doubled the number of eligible voters.
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New Opportunities Higher Education 1.Women began to earn advanced degrees Clubs 1. At first, women’s clubs focused on advancing knowledge (reading books).
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Social Reforms Raised Money 1.Libraries 2.Schools 3.Parks Pressed For Laws 1.Protect women/children 2.Ensure pure food/antibiotics 3.Win the vote.
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African Americans Racial barriers forced African Americans to form their own clubs.
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Temperance 1.Campaign against alcohol abuse 2.Women’s Christian Temperance Union - Goal- ban the sale of liquor - Led by- Francis Willard-(left), Carry Nation- (right)
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Eighteenth Amendment 1.Ratified- 1919 2.What it did- placed a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol.
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