Transcript Women could not vote.

Women’s Suffrage
Movement
1 What does suffrage mean?
Suffrage = Voting Rights
► When
the United
States
Constitution was
written, only
2 white men had
the right to vote.
► Women could
not vote.
► Women
could notown property or
have certain jobs.
• Women’s suffrage (voting rights)
became an organized movement
3 in 1848 at a convention in New
York.
Let me Vote!
Amendment- addition, changes, or corrections to a
constitution. Ex:…
4
th
►15 Amendment : gave voting rights to all men.
Are they
=…?
It would take
72 years
before U.S.
laws would
be
changed.
• Movement started
in 1848.
• Women given
voting rights in
1920.
Famous Woman’s Suffragist
Susan B. Anthony &
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(seated)
• Leader in women’s
rights.
Ever see
her face on
$
Jane McCallum
Women’s suffragist
leader.
 Worked with the League
of Women Voters of
Texas.
 Texas Secretary of State
1927-1933.

Many people didn’t
want women to have
the right to vote.
Why?
Anti - Suffrage
There were
groups
trying to
stop women
from getting
their rights.
These pamphlets were often passed out.
What else
does it
say?
What else did the pamphlet say?
► BECAUSE
90% of the women either do not
want it, or do not care.
► BECAUSE it means competition of women with
men instead of cooperation.
► BECAUSE 86% of the women eligible to vote
are married and can only double or annul their
husband’s votes.
► BECAUSE it can be of no benefit commensurate
with the additional expense involved.
► BECAUSE in some States more voting women
than voting men will place the Government
under petticoat rule.
► BECAUSE it is unwise to risk the good we
already have for the evil which may occur.
NYC Parade: 6 May 1912
Only
Daddy
can vote!
‘Election Day’
1. Explain the
message of
this cartoon.
2. What do
you think the
artist hoped
to
accomplish?
The
th
19
Amendment
It was ratified
on August 18,
1920
 Amendment
XIX (19)
 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 gender.