1. Bellringer
Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Robert M. LaFollette are all considered progressives because they
supported the formation of the first trade union
used Presidential power to break up strikes
worked to limit the power of big business
formed the first civil rights organizations

2. Learning Targets Standards Learning Targets
Analyze the efforts to achieve women’s suffrage in the early twentieth century
Learning Targets
I can describe how the strategies of the women’s suffrage movement changed over time, and evaluate the success of each.
Essential Question (exit slip)
Whose efforts were most influential in the success of the women’s suffrage movement?

3. The American women suffrage movement
Right to vote = Suffrage

4. Strategies Activities
Each student in the row gets a card with 1 strategy that the women suffrage groups used
Each students needs to answer the following questions about their strategy. Use the handout with each strategy to answer the questions in complete sentences.
Each student will have an opportunity to share responses with their other row members

5. Map of suffrage before 1920
According to the map where are most women allowed to vote prior to the 19th amendment? Ac

6. Rally-Coach?
Step 1: row member 1A- Share your responses to the questions.
Step 2: Other group members- write down the strategy and descriptive factors about the strategy
Step 3: Repeat Steps 1 and 2 for other group members

7. Visual analysis What do you see in the image?
Around what year do you think this photograph was taken?
How do you think the public responded?

8. Seneca falls, new york 1848
A group of women and men gathered at a conference (mtg) in Seneca Falls, NY 1848
The conference was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucrettia Mott
Conference attendees wrote the Declaration of Sentiments

9. Reading ACTIVITY Declaration of sentiments
Directions on handout on sharepoint

10. 1st generation suffrage movement
National America Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Big Leaders: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stantion
Two big strategies:
Try to win suffrage state by state
Try to pass a Consitutional Amendment ( this would need to be ratified by 36 states ¾)

11. The 2nd suffrage generation
Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in and Susan B Anthony in 1906
But in the early 1900’s many young middle-class women were going to college and joining the suffrage movement
Many working-class women also joined the cause; hoping the right to vote would improve working conditions

12. Anti-sUFFRAGISTS
Those who opposed extending the right to vote to women
Believed women:
were high-strung, irrational, and emotional
Not smart or educated enough
Should stay at home
Physically frail (weak); they would get tired just walking to the polling station
Would become too masculine

13. Safe or sorry?
Carrie Chapman Catt led the National American Woman Suffrage Association
Believed in :
Careful state by state strategy
Supporting Pres. Wilson even though he didn’t outright support suffrage because Democrats were a safer bet than Republicans
Acting ladylike so as not to embarrass the movement

14. National woman’s party
Alice Paul led the NWP and believed in more aggressive strategies:
Focused on passing a Constitutional Amendment
Adopted un-ladylike strategies from British suffragettes (ex. Heckling politicians, picketing)
Refused to support President Wilson if he wouldn’t support woman suffrage
NWP members were arrested for picketing in front of the White House during WWI. They were put in jail, went on a hunger strike, and were force-fed.

15. 19th amendment, 1920
Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify, and it passed by only 1 vote
Says:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or by any state on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article.

16. Iron Jawed angels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx9iSnmdTZA
On your notes list the following:
strategies NWP used to gain right to vote
struggles women faced trying to achieve suffrage

17. EXIT SLIP
Write a thesis statement to the following prompt:
Whose efforts were most influential in the success of the women’s suffrage movement?