1. The
Suffrage
Movement

2. population, and industry.
In the early 1800s, the United States of America grew in size,
population,
and industry.

3. People also wanted
AMERICA to grow in GREATNESS.
At this time, the freedoms and rights promised in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution
and the Amendments were not given to all Americans.

4. Slavery is the opposite of liberty!
Slavery was legal
in the land
of the free.
Slavery is the opposite of liberty!

5. There were people who wanted to ABOLISH, or END, slavery
There were people who wanted to ABOLISH, or END, slavery. They were called abolitionists.
They worked for the Abolitionist Movement.

6. Do women have rights?
Women were NOT ALLOWED to VOTE in the United States.

7. suffrage. Women’s Suffrage Movement the right to vote. The right
is called
suffrage.
The
Women’s
Suffrage
Movement
worked
to GIVE women
the right to vote.

8. Anti-suffragists
Those who opposed extending the right to vote to women were called anti-suffragists. Many anti’s were women.
Political cartoon mocking anti’s: “O Save Us, Senators, from Ourselves!”

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

10. In this presentation we will meet two women who fought for women to have the right to vote.
Suffragists

11. A teacher

12. "We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men and women are created equal...“
1848 Seneca Falls Declaration
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

13. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
was a teacher who believed women should have
the same voting rights as men.
She was a writer who used words to protest what
was wrong with America and how it could
become better.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton became “the face” of the
Women’s Suffrage Movement.

14. Florence Kelley

15. Florence Kelley was an American social and political reformer
Florence Kelley was an American social and political reformer. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights is widely regarded today.

16. These women and other men and women across the country worked long and hard to convince the government and the people of the United States that the laws should be changed.

17. One thing that had to be done, was to let the people of each state vote on the idea.

18. Finally after years of hard work, the 19th Amendment was added to the Constitution of the United States in August of 1920.

19. Amendment XIX
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.