1. The American Women’s Suffrage Movement 1848-1920
Right to vote= Suffrage

2. 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- designed after the declaration of independence. Lists the rights desired by women in the U.S.

3. Fifteenth Amendment, 1871
Grants African-American men the right to vote
Disappoints many women who thought African American men and women would be enfranchised (given the right to vote) together

4. Sojourner Truth, 1869
“There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women And if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.”

5. Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony tried several times to introduce an Amendment bill to Congress, but it was always killed in the Senate.

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

7. Arguments of Anti-Suffragists:
Women were:
high-strung, irrational, emotional
not smart or educated enough
too physically frail; they would get tired just walking to the polling station
Women would become “masculine” if they voted
Women should:
stay at home!!!

9. 19th Amendment, 1920
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.