Basic
What does suffrage mean?
The right to vote in political elections
What does the 19th Amendment state?
Granted women the right to vote
Name two who participated in the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women did not want the president to support equal rights and the right to vote for females.
True or False
False
What does advocate mean, and give an example
Advocate means to support an idea. I will advocate for the NAACP for fight against unequal rights.
Which state first granted women suffrage?
Wyoming
What association helps with women's suffrage in the U.S.?
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
What was one of the arguments that Susan B. Anthony argued in her speech?
1. Equality of Women
2. Right to Vote
3. Violence meted on women
Abolitionists strongly supported the Women's Suffrage Movement.
True or False
True
What does constitutions mean?
The rules and laws a state would follow.
What was the one thing that Susan B. Anthony did not do for women's rights?
a. Formed National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
b. Collected signatures for a petition to grant women the right to vote and own property
c. Speech: “Home Life”
d. Voted in 1872 Election
C.
When did women get the right to vote in relation to African American men - before or after? Who were able to vote first, women or Black Men.
After
Stanton included this in her speech: “Can all this be made to change without prolonged discussion, upheavings, heartburnings, violence, and war?”
What was the point of this statement?
a. Wants peace and harmony
b. Makes a similar reference between slavery and women's rights
c. Hates violence
d. Wants a rapid change in women's rights
B. Makes a similar reference between slavery and women's rights
The Southern region of the United States showed the most support towards the Women's Suffrage Movement.
True or False
False
→ Western
Give an example of a ripple effect that happened with Women's Suffrage.
Susan B. Anthony with fifteen other women still voted even though it was not legal. Other women found out and felt motivated. One by one, states change their idea.
When did women get to vote?
(When was the 19th amendment ratified?)
1920
What was the Woman's Suffrage Movement?
The struggle for the right of women to vote and run for office
Part of the overall women's rights movement.
How did Radical Reconstruction ideas influence Stanton?
a. Freely expresses her thoughts on slavery
b. Freely expresses her thoughts on Congress
c. Freely expresses her thoughts on Radical Republicans
d. Freely expresses her thoughts on men
D. Freely expresses her thoughts on men; influenced women to stand up and realize their importance in society
[The Impact of U.S. Involvement in WWI on the Women's Suffrage Movement]
President Wilson decided to support voting rights for women after witnessing the contributions women made in the war effort.
True or False
True
1. Education
2.Shape the minds of children
3. Volunteers
4. Be kind and treat others with respect
5. I do my part to help the world
What did radical republicans believe, and how did it affect the women's suffrage movement?
NAACP believed that black people were entitled to have_______ ________ and opportunities as whites. Consequently (signal word for effect), blacks, who were originally treated worse than women, were granted rights (before,after) women did. Women thought it was necessary to hold rights and they started a movement.
equal rights, before
Why did western women gain voting rights earlier than the rest of the nation?
Because western states were ______ ______, unencumbered by the institutions and traditions of the East, and wanted ____ _______, they demonstrated progressivism, such as women's suffrage, that led the nation.
newly formed, new settlers
1. In 1848 Women were second-class citizens. The term second "class citizen" was stated in the text. What does this term mean in this context?
2. List two examples.
Who does Susan B. Anthony Reminds you of?
Second Class Citizens - Women were not allowed to have the same rights as men
1.They couldn't get the same job
2. They were paid less
3. No right to vote like everybody else
4. No right to make political decisions
She reminds me of Activist Martin Luther King, because she faught for equality just like her.
The obstacle women had to be overcome before earned the right to vote was the belief that women could not hold any job outside the home.
True or False
False
→ The belief that women weren't educated enough to vote
1.How does this situation affect the other countries.
2. How does it affect women today?
1. Other countries learn by example and through western influence. Globilization. News caught on about how women should be treated equally as men.
2. Over time Women started to get an education just like men, get better jobs. Today you would see women in high leveled jobs whereas before it was not likely because it used to be a MANS world.