Women’s Suffrage Movement

Roots of the Movement

• Linked with the abolitionist movement (1820’s).
• World’s Anti-Slavery Convention is eye opener!!!
• Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott organize the Seneca Falls Convention (1848).

Seneca falls convention

• Beginning of the women’s movement (1848).
• Called for reforms
• Women Suffrage - Hot Topic!!!!
• The Declaration of Sentiments

“We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights……”

Women’s Rights Activism

• Devoted energies to attain legal reforms.
• Organized into local units.
• Held state and national conventions.
• Immersed themselves in social reform movements.

Pioneers

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony
• Lucy Stone
• Lucretia Mott

Civil War

• Suffrage is halted!
• Engage in War Effort
• Smell an opportunity???

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14th and 15th Amendments are bittersweet!

Split

National Woman Suffrage Association

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Stanton & Anthony

Focused on Suffrage

Political Agitation

American Woman Suffrage Association

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Stone & Beecher

Focused on Suffrage

Allied with Republican Party

1890 - National American Women Suffrage Association

• Merger occurs
• Nonpartisan
• Focus on gaining suffrage at state level.
• Traditional means to achieve goals.
• Not all agree - Alice Paul
• Forms the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage

Women Activism

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