1. Periods 2, 5, & 6
We will examine the role of women in the workplace and how that led to an increase push for the right to vote.
Why is the right to vote important? Is it important?
Chapter 9.2 Chart work
Chapter 9.2 Notes
Map Work on Suffrage

2. Chapter 9 Section 2 Women in Higher Education
Women began to attend women’s colleges
Vassar, Smith, and Wellesly Colleges admitted only women.
Half of college-educated women didn’t marry

4. NACW – National Association of Colored Women
Social Housekeeping
Women wanted reform in workplace, housing, and education
NACW – National Association of Colored Women
NAWSA – National American Woman Suffrage Association
Women’s groups faced opposition
Liquor industry fearful of prohibition
Textile industry fearful of women’s opposition to child labor

7. Suffragists tried to convince state legislatures to grant women the right to vote.
Wyoming was the first state to let women vote in 1890

8. Women pursued court cases to test the 14th Amendment
Supreme Court said women were citizens but still couldn’t vote

9. Women pushed for a national amendment to grant women the right to vote
The 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote

11. Who made up the leadership of NAWSA?
What argument was made about immigrants when it came to voting?
Who led the National Women’s Party?
What did members of the National Women’s Party do at the White House?
What war eventually helped lead to women voting?