Antebellum Era
Most early suffragists were members of this movement up until the Civil War
What was the Abolition movement?
This organization was the central and largest Suffrage organization in the United States.
What is the National American Women's Suffrage Association, or NAWSA?
The passage of this Constitutional Amendment led to a split in the Suffrage movement after the Civil War since it only gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Many southerners were against Women's Suffrage because they felt that it would force the Southern states to give back suffrage to this group.
Who were African American men?
The fraction amount of states required to ratify an approved Constitutional Amendment.
What is 3/4?
These TWO women planned the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This woman split from NAWSA and formed the National Women's Party
Who was Alice Paul?
This suffragist focused on racial justice and women's rights. She was also a teacher at two Black colleges, the founder of the Colored Women's League, and the first National President of the National Association of Colored Women.
Who was Mary Church Terrell?
The constant fear of women suddenly nagging their husbands was part of the fear that giving women the vote would lead to doing this to men.
What is make them more feminine?
This western state was the first to give their women the right to vote.
What is Wyoming?
This male superstar of the Abolitionist movement cast the deciding vote to include Suffrage in the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This radical woman led her "suffragettes" when disrupting government meetings, chaining themselves to government buildings, and holding hunger strikes in prison.
Who was Emmeline Pankhurst?
This woman formed the Alpha Suffrage club in Chicago, IL, the first African American Women's club to solely focus on winning the right to vote.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
Many Anti Suffragists believed that giving women the vote would lead to irreversible damage to either of these three institutions.
What is marriage, the home, or the family?
Although resistant at first, this POTUS later agreed with NAWSA and the NWP that women should have the right to vote after WWI.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
The concern over the abuse of this substance further proved to many American Women that suffrage was needed.
What is alcohol, or alcoholic beverages?
This woman was the leader of NAWSA when women won the right to vote in Nashville, TN in August of 1920.
Who was Carrie Chapman Catt?
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and Charlotte Forten Grimke formed this group in Boston. Their motto: "Lifting as we climb."
What was the National Association for Colored Women, or the NACW?
This color of rose was worn by the Anti Suffragists, and they made sure that the men voting their way in the Tennessee Legislature also had one on their lapel!
What is the color red?
This Tennessean Legislator, the youngest in the Assembly, cast the deciding vote in ratifying the 19th Amendment. Good boy, he listened to his mother.
Who was Harry Burn?
This leader of the suffrage movement was also an ardent abolitionist, and advocate of education, and felt that women should keep their last name after marriage. And she did.
Who was Lucy Stone?
This woman was NOT at the Seneca Falls convention, but she did eventually form the National American Women's Suffrage Association.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
Since many African American women were largely ignored by the white suffrage movement and the male civil rights movement, Black women focused on these TWO things.
What are human rights and universal suffrage?
This woman was the head of the National Association Opposed to Women's Suffrage in Tennessee when the Amendment was to be voted on in August, 1920.
Who was Josephine Pearson?
This color of rose was favored by the suffragists, and the legislators who supported them wore this color on their lapels.
What is yellow?