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Women who

fought for the right

to vote

What does suffragette

mean?

THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT

By 1870______% of college students were women.

Very few women could obtain high level jobs:

_________________________________ Most women went into the professions of _________________________ Many women became active

______________ since they couldn’t use their education toward a career and were expected to stay at home.

executives, lawyers, doctors, etc.

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social work or teaching

reformers

VOTES FOR WOMEN Elizabeth Cady and Susan B. Anthony started

the _____________________________________(NAWSA)

In 1913 The National Women’s Party was formed and used _______________________________ and other means to draw attention to the cause.

In 1919 the US Congress passed the _____ Amendment, giving women the right to vote.

National American Woman Suffrage Association

parades, pickets, hunger strikes

19th

LOOK AT THE TIMELINE ON PAGE 676-677

How long did it take after Congress passed the 19th Amendment for it to be ratified?

What was the date for the first national election in which women were allowed to vote?

After the House of Representatives passed the 19th Amendment, what had to occur for it to become a law?

14 months

November 2, 1920

The Senate had to pass it, and 3/4s of the states had to ratify it

Create a banner with a slogan for or

against the women’s right to

vote.

WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE

1. Increased2. Trillions3. 344. ½5. Gg6. 1910-1920, 1940-1950

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Imagine you are living in 1908. Write a journal entry about your day…work, school, protests, etc. Share.

This massive parade consisted of no less than nine bands. It also included four brigades on horseback and close to eight thousand marchers.  The parade was cut into sections: working women, state delegates, male suffragists, and finally African-American women.

THE STORY OF AN HOUR BY KATE CHOPIN

Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills. 

FINALLY… Explain what happened at the end of

the story. What does the title mean? What does this story tell you about

the time period?

How would Kate Chopin feel about modern day women?

 PICK OUT AT LEAST FIVE

PHRASES WHICH YOU THINK ARE ESPECIALLY

IMPORTANT TO THE STORY . BRIEFLY DESCRIBE WHY

YOU CHOSE EACH.WHAT QUESTIONS ABOUT

CHARACTER OR MOTIVATION OR PLOT

DOES THIS STORY LEAVE IN YOUR MIND?