1. Rights of Women Women Win the Vote Seneca Fall Convention of 1848
National Woman Suffrage Association
Constitutional Amendment to give women the right to vote
Arrested
Women Vote in the West
Opposed it
Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Idaho
Bar women from voting
We may stay out of the Union for 100 years but we will come in with our women

2. The Nineteenth Amendment
Growing Support
5 million
Less than men
People who worked for women’s right to vote
Win suffrage state by state
The Nineteenth Amendment
Federal elections
President Wilson
1919
Right to vote

3. Higher Education and Women’s Clubs
Practice Law or Medicine
Boston University
1,000 lawyers and 7,000 doctors
Read books and seek other ways to advance their knowledge
Libraries, Schools and Parks
Protect women and children, ensure pure food and drugs and win the vote
National Association of Colored Women
Women Reformers
Social Work
Florence Kelly
Child Labor