1. Do Now: What do you see here? What year do you think this is?
How do you think the public responded?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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)

7. Anti-Suffragists:
Those who opposed suffrage
(many “Anti’s”
were women)

9. 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)

10. Muckrakers Journalists
and urban photographers who exposed people to the plight of the unfortunate in
hopes of sparking reform.

11. Muckrakers Jacob Riis Danish immigrant who faced New York poverty
Exposed the slums through magazines, photographs, and a best-selling book

13. Muckrakers Ida Tarbell
Exposed the corrupt Standard Oil Company and its owner, John D. Rockefeller

14. Muckrakers Lincoln Steffens
Shame of the Cities (1904) exposed corrupt city governments

15. Upton Sinclair
Wrote a book called The Jungle which exposed the lack of sanitation in the meat packing industry