1. Where did women’s suffrage begin?

2. Women’s Rights Movement 1900-1920
The Essentialists- Most members of NAWSA, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Howard Shaw
Equal Rights-Some members of NAWSA, Charlotte Perkins, NWP, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Ida Wells
The Opposition- National Association opposed to Women’s Suffrage (NAOWS)
Women’s Rights Movement

3. The Essentialists

9. Argued that women’s differences needed to be recognized and laws should be passed that address the differences
Mothers needed protection to work, they would be destroyed by trying to work and take care of the kids.
Essentialists

10. Equal Rights

11. “But when the hounds of wages, hunger, cold, intolerable hours and discouragement pursue her, where is her place and what is her protection?”

14. National Voting Amendment to the Constitution (19th Amendment)
Equal Rights Amendments-an amendment to the Constitution that would make it illegal to discriminate against women in any cases.
Equal Rights Causes

15. Conflict between the two
Essentialists feared that the ERA would take away protections from women because they still would have to mothers.
Equal Rights believers thought that essentialists were forever putting into law that women would have to take care of children and could never prioritize public life over private.
Conflict between the two

16. The Opposition

22. Ratified into the Constitution in 1920 after first being introduced in 1878!
Prohibited denial of the right to vote based on sex
Upheld in the Supreme Court Case Lesner v. Garnett (1922)
Whose argument was most effective in bringing this about?
19th Amendment