1. The expansion of suffrage
Consent of the governed

3. Representative democracy
What does it mean? In your notes define what representative democracy is.

4. Representative democracy
People vote for who is going to represent them in their government. People do not vote directly on issues, they vote for representatives who pass legislation fro them.

5. Free and equal elections
One vote, one person. Every vote is counted as equal.

6. March 4th 1789

7. 1828 “common man” could vote

8. 15th amendment

9. 15th amendment: December 7, 1868
Prohibits the denial of voting based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

10. Problems with the 15th Amendment

11. Problems with the 15th Amendment

13. 24th amendment: abolition of poll taxes
Section 1: The right of citizens of the United states to vote in any primary or other election for president or vice president, for electors for president or vice president, or for senator or representative in congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

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15. Voting rights act of 1965 Outlawed the use of literacy tests
Section 2 reiterated the 15th amendment stating no state shall deny or prevent the right to vote based upon race or colors.

16. Voting and gender equality

18. "We will remain out of the Union a hundred years rather than come in without our women!"
—A cable from the Wyoming Territorial Legislature to the Federal Government in Washington

20. Early role of women in the U.S.

21. Seneca Falls convention 1848, New York
First national women’s rights convention
Advocated suffrage for women, the abolishment of slavery, and temperance of alcohol

22. Anti-Suffragists: Molly Elliot Seawell

23. Anti-Suffragists: Molly Elliot Seawell
1) What is her argument?

24. Anti-Suffragists: Molly Elliot Seawell
What is her argument?
What words does she use to make her point stronger?

25. Anti-Suffragists: Molly Elliot Seawell
What is her argument?
What words does she use to make her point stronger?
What does this document suggest about the assumptions that people held about women in 1911?

26. Read over documents B and C while completing the graphic organizer

27. Summative discussion
According to these documents, why were people opposed to woman suffrage?

28. Summative discussion
According to these documents, why were people opposed to woman suffrage?
Try to see thing from the anti-suffragist perspective - (lets assume that they’re not just mean) – why is woman suffrage scary to them?

29. Summative discussion
According to these documents, why were people opposed to woman suffrage?
Try to see thing from the anti-suffragist perspective - (lets assume that they’re not just mean) – why is woman suffrage scary to them?
Are you surprised that many anti-suffragists were women?

30. Summative discussion
According to these documents, why were people opposed to woman suffrage?
Try to see thing from the anti-suffragist perspective - (lets assume that they’re not just mean) – why is woman suffrage scary to them?
Are you surprised that many anti-suffragists were women?
Do you think the reasons for opposing suffrage were political (men didn’t want to lose their political positions) or social reasons (ideas about women’s place in society)?

31. Failure is Impossible, by Rosemary H. Knower
Cast of Characters and Their Significance to Suffrage
(in order of appearance)
Abigail Adams – Wife of John Adams, second president of the United States; mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president; and one of the first advocates of women’s equal education and women’s property rights.
Sarah Grimké – An abolitionist and feminist, Grimké authored the first developed public argument for women’s equality and lectured around the country in a time when women did not speak in public.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Wrote “The Declaration of Sentiments,” proclaiming that men and women are created equal; credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women’s suffrage movements in the U.S.
Frederick Douglass – A former slave turned social reformer, Douglass was one of the only men present at the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
Susan B. Anthony – Perhaps the most recognized and accomplished member of the suffrage movement- giving it “force and direction for half a century,” according to one biographer; in its early days, the 19th Amendment was popularly known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.

32. Failure is Impossible, by Rosemary H. Knower
Cast of Characters and Their Significance, Continued
(in order of appearance)
Sojourner Truth – Born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree, the eventual abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and lecturer was the first black woman to successfully recover her son from a white man by way of legal action in court.
Frances Gage – A leading feminist and abolitionist, Gage was among the first to champion voting rights for all citizens without regard to race or gender.
Lucy Stone – The first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree, Stone was a prominent public speaker, abolitionist, and suffragist.
Clara Barton – Founder of the American Red Cross; first woman to serve as a clerk for the federal government at a salary equal to that of a man’s.
Mary Ware Dennett – A prominent women's rights activist and pacifist, Dennett was also a pioneer in the areas of birth control, sex education, and advocacy for administration of anesthetic during childbirth.

33. Failure is Impossible, by Rosemary H. Knower
Cast of Characters and Their Significance, Continued
(in order of appearance)
Harriot Stanton Blatch – The daughter of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Blatch reinvigorated the suffrage movement in the early 1900s and organized and led a 1910 suffrage parade in New York.
Woodrow Wilson – The 28th President of the United States, Wilson became an outspoken proponent of women’s suffrage and was president when the 19th Amendment was ratified.
Nettie Rogers Schuler – Suffragist, public speaker, and leader of several New York women’s clubs.
Carrie Chapman Catt – Founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women

34. Think of three to four words to describe movement to achieve woman suffrage

35. Voting rights post Wwii and today
Task: Listen and follow along with the transcript provided underlining or highlighting two concepts:
A) examples of the extension of voting right to greater numbers of people
B) Issues related to voting rights today.