1. Section 3 The Rights of Women
Chapter 19
Section 3
The Rights of Women

2. 1. Increased activism of local and grass roots groups
Which three new developments finally brought the success of the women’s suffrage movement within reach?
1. Increased activism of local and grass roots groups
2. The use of bold new strategies to build enthusiasm for the movement
3. Regeneration of the national movement under Carrie Chapman Catt
Maud Wood Park (right)

3. Suffragists! Alice Paul Carrie Chapman Catt Susan B. Anthony
Lucy Burns

4. Which constitutional amendment recognized the women’s right to vote?
19th Amendment
Passed by Congress 1919
Final ratification August 1920

5. What types of jobs were women in each group likely to hold?
Lower Class
African - American

6. Middle and Upper Class
Immigrant

7. How did educational opportunities for middle- and upper- class women change?.
Vassar College - Poughkeepsie, NY 
Randolph- Macon College – Ashland Virginia
Barnard College
Pembroke University
Radcliffe College

8. No longer a woman’s only alternative
How did these new opportunities affect the lives of middle- and upper- class women?
No longer a woman’s only alternative
Offered opportunities to
pursue a profession
2.Offered opportunities to
devote oneself to volunteer
work and reform
movements

9. What three strategies were adopted by suffragists to win the vote?
1. Tried to convince state legislatures to grant women the right to vote.
2. Pursued court cases to test the 14th Amendment.
3. Campaigned for a national constitution amendment to grant women the right to vote.

10. but other states failed
What result did each strategy produce? 1.
2. Supreme Court ruled women were citizens, but that citizens didn’t automatically get the right to vote
Statehood for these 4,
but other states failed
3. At first, Senate killed idea; reached the Senate floor for a vote several times, but was always voted down

11. Temperance Movement What? – campaign against alcohol abuse
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was led by Frances Willard, and her goal was end the sale of liquor
18th Amendment (1919) – banned the sale and consumption of alcohol in the United States