Transcript Why Can`t I Vote?

Donnia Trent
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Main Campus, Tomeu Center, GED, Lab 311
Fort Pierce, FL
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Why women weren’t allowed to vote
 Married women were
legally dead in the eyes
of the law
 Women were not
allowed to go to college
 Married women could
not own property
 Women decided that they should be allowed to
vote just like anyone else. Many women worked
together to encourage the government to change
the law and pass the 19th amendment to the
Constitution.
Nineteenth Amendment
 Section 1: 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 sex.
 Section 2: Congress shall have power to enforce
this article by appropriate legislation.
Methods // Strategies
 Parades
 Marches
 Silent vigils
 Hunger strikes
 Civil disobedience
 Protests
 Lobbying
 Lectured
 Wrote Letters
Protests
 This protest was in
Washington, D.C.
in 1913.
• This protest was in
Washington, D.C.
in 1913.
• This picture shows a
protest march in New
York in 1913.
Watch Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGVbyIqR9YA
About 35 seconds
Civil Disobedience
 Women spoke out for suffrage from horse-drawn
wagons and street corner soapboxes.
 Some discussed politics in genteel tea parties, others
were arrested for picketing for suffrage in front of the
White House.
Suffrage is the right to vote in public
affairs.
Important Players
Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), Quaker reformer and preacher, who
worked for abolition, peace, and equality for women in jobs and
education; organizer of the 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention,
which launched the women's rights movement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), president of the National
Woman Suffrage Association from 1865 to 1893; author of the woman's
bill of rights, which she read at the Seneca Falls, New York, convention
in 1848; first to demand the vote for women.
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), abolitionist, temperance advocate, and later
president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, who joined
with Stanton in 1851 to promote woman suffrage; proposed the constitutional
amendment passed many years after her death. attempted to cast a vote,
hoping to be arrested. She was arrested and indicted for "knowingly,
wrongfully and unlawfully voting for a representative to the Congress of the
United States." Found guilty and fined, she insisted she would never pay a
dollar of it. Susan B. Anthony’s Petition To Congress
Order of Ratification of the 19th Amendment
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Ratification on June 10, 1919 (yellow)
Ratification from June 16, 1919 to July 28, 1919 (chartreuse)
Ratification from August 2, 1919 to December 15, 1919 (aqua)
Ratification from January 6, 1920 to March 22, 1920 (gray-green)
Ratification on August 18, 1920 (gray)
The War of the Roses
 The 19th Amendment needed one more state to pass it to be
ratified. Tennessee was that state.
 Tennessee was the site of a great political battle called The War
of the Roses.
 People against the amendment
wore red roses and people for
the amendment wore yellow roses.
 On August 18, 1920, Tennessee
ratified the amendment--the result of
a change of vote by 24 year-old
legislator Harry Burn (a member of the
Tennessee General Assembly) who broke the deadlock vote in
favor of ratification…at the insistence of his elderly mother.
Rep. Harry Burn
 On August 18, 1920, Tennessee
ratified the amendment--the
result of a change of vote by 24
year-old legislator Harry Burn.
 A blatant red rose on his breast,
Harry Burn--the youngest
member of the Tennessee
Assembly--suddenly broke the
deadlock. Despite his red rose,
he voted in favor of the bill. The
house erupted into
pandemonium. With his "yea,"
Burn had delivered universal
suffrage to all American women.
This photograph from the "Ratification Issue" of the Nashville
Tennessean shows the Senate chamber at the moment that the clerk
counted the historic vote on women's suffrage. With this vote,
Tennessee became the 36th and deciding state to approve the
19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right
to vote.
Rep. Harry Burn
 The outraged opponents to the bill began
chasing Representative Burn around the
Representative Harry T. Burns
room. In order to escape the angry mob,
Burn climbed out one of the
third-floor windows of the
Capitol. Making his way along a
ledge, he was able to save
himself by hiding in the Capitol
attic.
Tennessee State
Capital Building
Passage of the
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Amendment
In 1848, Lucretia Mott organized the Seneca Fall, NY, Conference
In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in Seneca Falls, NY, demanded the
right for women to vote
In 1851, Susan B. Anthony petitioned Congress to pass the 19th
Amendment to the US Constitution
In 1878, the amendment was introduce to Congress
In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson changed his position to support an
amendment, the political balance began to shift in favor of the vote for
women
On May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives passed the amendment.
On June 4, 1919, the Senate passed the amendment.
on August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the
amendment, the amendment passed its final hurdle of obtaining the
agreement of three-fourths of the states.
Reminder - The
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19
Amendment
 Text of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States
 "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 sex.
 Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation."
Watch Video Clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dPF0SGh_PQ
about 2 mins.
Recaps – in a informative but enjoyment way the suffrage
and the passage of the 19th Amendment
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