1. W OMEN ’ S R IGHTS M OVEMENT : S UFFRAGE

2. B EGINNING 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, England Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott (Quaker Preacher) meet Convention doesn’t allow women in Stanton and Mott decide to hold a women’s rights convention

3. J ULY, 1848 Mott visits sister and meets Stanton again Mott, Stanton, and three other women meet and decided to have convention Convention, “to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman.” Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments Advertised for convention through an unsigned notice

4. S ENECA F ALLS C ONVENTION July 19 th and 20 th, 1848 300 people showed up Frederick Douglass, a former slave, convinced people to vote to pass the resolution of women’s suffrage 100 women and men signed the Seneca Falls Declaration (like the Declaration of Independence)

5. A FTERMATH Backlash from the press Stanton loved all the publicity because it gave more people the chance to hear about the cause It took 72 years for women to get the right to vote!!!

6. S USAN B. A NTHONY 1820-1906 Quaker; parents raised her to believe men and women were equal. Abolitionist; believed that former slaves deserved the right to vote. However, when the 15 th Amendment came out, she refused to support it unless it gave the vote to ALL people, including women.

7. L UCY S TONE 1818-1893 Abolitionist and women’s rights activist; refused to take her husband, Henry Blackwell’s, name. Unlike Stanton and Anthony, she supported the 15 th amendment.

8. A LICE P AUL 1885-1977 Fought for Women’s Rights. Led a 7 month long protest in front of the White House; arrested. With others, went on hunger strike while imprisoned. They were force fed while in solitary confinement.

9. I DA B. W ELLS 1862-1931 Anti-lynch activist; had to leave the South for her safety. Fought for Women’s Rights. Marched in the parade to disrupt Pres. Wilson’s inauguration, even though some white suffragists didn’t want her to because she was African American.

10. 19 TH A MENDMENT PASSED! It passed in Congress on June 4, 1919. It was finally ratified by the states on August 18, 1920. It says that no citizen will be denied the vote based on their gender. Now, everyone can vote, no matter their race or gender!

11. W OMEN IN THE 1920’ S They participated in the happiness of the 1920’s by throwing off the old restrictions of being a “proper woman”. They dressed and danced how they liked. Nicknamed “Flappers”: (in the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.

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