1. Women’s Suffrage

2. Women’s Suffrage Suffrage = the right to vote in political elections.
Women had increased educational opportunities
Fought and petitioned for the right to vote
Women started to gain the right to vote one state at a time (starting out west)

4. Ladies Involved
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns
Anthony and Stanton founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Worked to promote women’s suffrage
Speech
Burns worked on an Amendment giving women the right to vote
Paul formed the National Women’s Party and supported a women’s suffrage Amendment

5. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton

8. 19th Amendment 19th Amendment Passed in 1920
Women Gained the right to vote
Amendment to the Constitution
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10. the women’s suffrage movement
voting rights
equality
the women’s suffrage movement

11. Famous leader and icon of the women’s suffrage movement – helped form a national organization that focused efforts on a constitutional amendment granting women’s suffrage.
19th amendment was named the “Susan B. Anthony” amendment in her honor.
Helped form the National Woman’s Party in 1916 and was a key figure whose actions helped bring about the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

12. Spent more time in jail than any other American suffragist.
Early leader of the women’s rights movement, worked closely with Susan B. Anthony to establish the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Helped organize the first women’s rights convention (1848) and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments
Co-founded the National Woman’s Party with Alice Paul in 1916 and organized lobbying in Congress for a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.
Spent more time in jail than any other American suffragist.

13. the right to vote (suffrage)
19th Amendment
increased educational opportunities

14. the women’s suffrage movement
voting rights
equality
the women’s suffrage movement

15. Famous leader of the women’s suffrage movement.
– She worked on an amendment granting women’s suffrage.
Helped Susan B. Anthony with the 19th Amendment in 1920.

16. Early leader of the women’s rights movement, worked closely with Susan B. Anthony
She spoke to Congress about an amendment giving women the right to vote.

17. the right to vote (suffrage)
19th Amendment
An education (school)