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Bell Ringer What does the term “suffrage” mean?
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Women’s Suffrage – Agree or Disagree?
Statement Agree or Disagree? Explanation A women’s place is at home in the kitchen. Women should have the same rights as men. Women now have all the same opportunities as men. Women have always had equal rights.
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Women’s Suffrage Movement
Major Players? Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Lucretia Mott Carrie Chapman Catt
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Women’s Suffrage Movement
3 minutes at each station with your group to analyze the document and answer the questions Homework: Create your own Suffragette poster Slogan Reason Visual
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Bell Ringer What reasons did women give as to why they should be able to vote?
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Women’s Suffrage Susan B. Anthony was arrested and tried for voting illegally in the Presidential Election. She was fined $100.
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Women’s Suffrage Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony sit next to George Washington Influential in the women’s rights movement Angels surround them named Utah and Wyoming. Why?
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Women’s Suffrage Nine Western states adopted women’s suffrage by 1912
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Women’s Suffrage Published in 1909 this cartoon shows the shifting attitudes in American society because of the women’s rights movement.
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Women’s Suffrage The fight for women’s suffrage was often divided along gender lines.
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Women’s Suffrage Suffrage Parade, May 6, 1912 in New York City.
Marches were a visible way to peacefully fight for equality.
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Women’s Suffrage Published in 1912
This document expresses the political, economic, and social impact women would have if they were allowed to vote.
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Women’s Suffrage Women began picketing places such as Washington D.C. to fight for their rights. During WWI women would compare President Wilson to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.
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Suffragists Poster Create your own Suffragist poster Slogan Reason
Visual
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Bell Ringer When did women begin organizing to fight for their equality, including the right to vote? July 19-20, 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY
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Women’s Suffrage President Woodrow Wilson was against supporting a women’s suffrage amendment to the US Constitution until New York State adopted women’s suffrage in 1917. May 21, 1919 the US House of Representatives passed the Women’s Suffrage Amendment June 4, 1919 the US Senate passed the Women’s Suffrage Amendment How does the Constitution get amended?
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Women’s Suffrage Tennessee became the 36th state, and last needed, to ratify the Women’s Suffrage Amendment on August 18, 1920. The Amendment was certified on August 26, 1920 p. 243 What does the 19th Amendment say? “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
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Women’s Suffrage How long did it take women to fight for the right to vote? Seneca Falls Convention on July 19-20, 1848 to the ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920 July 4th, 1776 – August 26, 1920
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The Roaring ‘20s More freedom for Women
More attending college 2 million more in the workforce Passage of the 19th Amendment Women elected to State Legislatures and the US House of Representatives Flappers – young women who used new freedoms to challenge traditional dress and behavior
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The Roaring ‘20s The Great Migration
African Americans moving from the South to the North and West
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The Roaring ‘20s Urbanization
Increasing the number of people who live in cities
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The Roaring ‘20s What are the Roaring ‘20s?
A decade in America that experienced major social, political, and economic change. Caught in the Path of Change Chapter 23 – The Roaring Twenties (p. 696) As you read the chapter complete the organizer by providing the missing information about people who cause, resisted, or found themselves in the path of change during the tumultuous decade.
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Bell Ringer What was the “Great Migration”?
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Caught in the Path of Change
Flappers Women who challenged the traditional dress and behavior John Scopes High School teacher who taught the theory of evolution in Tennessee Ku Klux Klan Opposed to immigration and hostile toward African Americans, Jews, foreigners, and Catholics Henry Ford Created the Model “T” and the use of the assembly line W.E.B. Du Bois Editor of The Crisis, printed works from artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance
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Harlem Renaissance A period from 1900 – 1930s when there was growth in African American art Named for the Harlem neighborhood in NYC Major writers Langston Hughes W.E.B. Du Bois Zora Neal Hurston Countee Cullen Claude McKay
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Blues and Jazz The 1920s are sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age
Blues – style of music that began in the Mississippi Delta Jazz – style of music that began in southern cities, like New Orleans Both were influenced by African American culture and spread throughout the country during the Great Migration Blues Musicians – W. C. Handy, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith Jazz Musicians – Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
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Dance New dances were created to fit the music of the era
The most popular dance was “The Charleston” named for Charleston, SC Based on African American folk dances from the American South Popularized by the Broadway show “Runnin’ Wild”
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