Women

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Womens Suffrage

• Mrs. Martin
• Southside High School
• 11/6/01

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Revolutionary War Era
In 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John
Adams to, remember the ladies. John Adams
responded, all men are created equal.
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During the early part of the 19th century, women
were stereotyped advice manuals, medical texts,
etc.
Nineteenth Century Advice for Women
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The Womens Sphere
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

• Republican virtue
• The cult of domesticity

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Desire for Economic and Political Rights

• Sojourner Truth, crusader for abolition and
  womens rights, delivered her famous, Aint I A
  Woman Speech in 1851

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The Political Sphere

• National and international events propelled
  women into the public arena.

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LEADERS OF THE Womens rights movement.
Leaders of the Womens Rights Movement
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
worked tirelessly for womens rights.
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National Anti-Suffrage Association Headquarters,
1911
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE HEADQUARTERS

• Location
• Upper Euclid Avenue,Cleveland, Ohio

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Suffragettes march
Suffragettes marched for political rights.
1912 New York Suffrage Parade



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A Square Deal for Women

• Theodore Roosevelts
• Progressive party adopted a womens suffrage
  plank.

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MARCH ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

• Suffragettes marched in Washington, DC, 1913.

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• Reformer implored President Woodrow Wilson to
  support womens suffrage.

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Petition from Anti-Suffrage Party of New York
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CASTING THE VOTE

• Three suffragettes cast their ballots in New York
  in 1917.
• Event occurred prior to passage of 19th amendment.

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Governor Edwin P. Morrow signing the Anthony
Law.
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Bibliography

• All photographs and cartoons were taken from the
  American Memory Collection of the Library of
  Congress.

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